Abstract
Previously, high-intensity ultrashort pulse propagation below the exciton resonance in semiconductors has been studied [1]. The main finding was pulse breakup due to escape from adiabatic following. Pulse propagation at the donor bound exciton in CdS [2] revealed a two-level atom like behavior including self-induced transparency (SIT). However, this behavior should be substantially modified at the exciton resonance of a semiconductor due to the influence of many-body interactions [3]. It was shown that the area theorem is different then from two-level systems, and a breakup of a multiple pi-pulse into multiples of two-pi pulses would not be expected.
© 1996 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
Harald Giessen, Stefan Linden, Jürgen Kuhl, and Andreas Knorr
QFE1 International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC) 1998
N. Peyghambarian, B. P. McGinnis, P. Harten, A. Knorr, S. G. Lee, R. Jin, E. Wright, G. Khitrova, H. M. Gibbs, and S. W. Koch
QTuB5 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO:FS) 1993
M. Sakai, R. Nakahara, J. Kawase, H. Kunugita, K. Etna, M. Nagai, and M. Kuwata-Gonokami
QThG30 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO:FS) 2002