Abstract
Current issues in the study of light-matter interactions are coherence and quantum interference. With ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy such as transient four-wave mixing (TFWM) the imposed coherence on the optical excitations in e.g. GaAs multiple quantum wells has been studied. In this contribution, we study the influence of inhomogeneous broadening on quantum beats observed by spectrally resolved TFWM. In artificially grown semiconductor structures as e.g. quantum wells, inhomogeneities due to interface-disorder has, up till now, been inevitable. In the experiments, the light-hole exciton (lhx) and the heavy-hole exciton (hhx) in a 100 Å GaAs multiple quantum well are excited simultaneously with 150 fs pulses from a self mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser. The spectral profile is shown in the inset of Fig. 1.
© 1994 Optical Society of America
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