Optical nutation in semiconductor quantum wells with multiple valence bands

Sheetal Kapoor; Pratima Sen; Pranay K. Sen

doi:10.1117/12.441311

25 September 2001 Optical nutation in semiconductor quantum wells with multiple valence bands

Sheetal Kapoor, Pratima Sen, Pranay K. Sen

Proceedings Volume 4417, Photonics 2000: International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.441311
Event: Photonics 2000: International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, 2001, Calcutta, India

Abstract

We have studied optical nutation and Stark splitting in a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well with multi valence band structure using effective semiconductor Bloch equations. The individual roles of light and heavy holes in optical nutation have been examined. The analysis shows that both Rabi oscillation frequency and Stark splitting increase with rising electric field strength as observed experimentally. Also it is seen that light hole species dominates over heavy hole species in the transmission characteristics of quantum wells.

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Sheetal Kapoor, Pratima Sen, and Pranay K. Sen "Optical nutation in semiconductor quantum wells with multiple valence bands", Proc. SPIE 4417, Photonics 2000: International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, (25 September 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.441311

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