Efficient four-wave mixing in four-subband semiconductor quantum wells using spatially modulated control fields with a linearly varying mixing angle

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Stefanatos, Dionisis [1 ]
Avouri, Foteini [1 ]
Paspalakis, Emmanuel [1 ]
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[1] Univ Patras, Sch Nat Sci, Mat Sci Dept, Patras 26504, Greece
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CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; INTERFERENCE; COHERENCE; OPTICS;
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10.1063/5.0169415
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O59 [应用物理学];
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In this article, we use spatially modulated control fields to increase the four-wave mixing efficiency in a four-subband semiconductor asymmetric double quantum well, motivated by similar works in atomic systems. Using a simplified version of the propagation equations, we show analytically that for control fields with a constant amplitude and linearly varying mixing angles with the propagation distance, a conversion efficiency close to unity can be achieved even for relatively short propagation distances. Subsequently, we confirm these results by numerically simulating the full set of propagation equations.
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