Abstract

Optical Rabi oscillations are strictly defined in terms of two-level systems (atoms or molecules) that are exposed to a stationary coherent light field in or close to resonance. In these systems the population oscillates harmonically between the lower and the upper electronic level. The observation of excitonic Rabi oscillations (i.e., the semiconductor analog to the case of atomic 2-level systems) have been achieved only recently^1,2 (see also the invited talk by Schülzgen et al. at this conference).

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