Abstract
The study of semiconductor quantum wells has demonstrated that linear and nonlinear optical properties depend strongly on dimensionality.1 Confinement along the remaining two directions is expected to further modify these properties.2 In the zero-dimensional limit, nonlinearities associated with interactions between excitons are quenched, and the lowest-lying excitation behaves as a noninteracting two-level system. Such behavior is observed, in materials of excellent optical quality, by immersing quantum wells in a strong perpendicular magnetic field.3
© 1991 Optical Society of America
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