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  • Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1999),
  • paper QThH3

Heavy-hole and light-hole oscillations in the coherent emission from quantum wells: evidence for exciton-exciton correlations

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Abstract

Here, we use the polarization selection rules for four-wave mixing (FWM) and a test that was originally designed to distinguish between quantum beats and polarization interference to demonstrate the presence of strong exciton-exciton correlations in GaAs-AlGaAs multiple quantum wells. We show that when the four-wave-mixing signal is produced by two pulses having the same circular polarizations that quantum-beat-like behavior is observed. The latter observation is contrary to the predictions based on either the density matrix equations for two independent three-level systems (without many body effects) or the conventional Semiconductor Bloch Equations (SBE), both of which predict that polarization interference, but not quantum beats, should be observed. Consequently, these observations provide clear evidence for exciton-exciton correlations and evidence that those correlations go beyond those contained in the SBE. The procedure described here provides a simple effective test for such processes. Finally, we show that the quantum-beating-like behavior can be reproduced by including a density-dependent dephasing term (so-called excitation-induced dephasing, or EID) in the density matrix equations.

© 1999 Optical Society of America

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