Nonperturbative Interband Response of a Bulk InSb Semiconductor Driven Off Resonantly by Terahertz Electromagnetic Few-Cycle Pulses

被引：78

作者：

Junginger, F. ^{[1
,2
]}

Mayer, B. ^{[1
,2
]}

Schmidt, C. ^{[1
,2
]}

Schubert, O. ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Maehrlein, S. ^{[1
,2
]}

Leitenstorfer, A. ^{[1
,2
]}

Huber, R. ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Pashkin, A. ^{[1
,2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Konstanz, Dept Phys, D-78457 Constance, Germany

[2] Univ Konstanz, Ctr Appl Photon, D-78457 Constance, Germany

[3] Univ Regensburg, Dept Phys, D-93053 Regensburg, Germany

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2012年 / 109卷 / 14期

关键词：

FIELD-RESOLVED DETECTION; GENERATION; TRANSIENTS; AMPLITUDES;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.147403

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

Intense multiterahertz pulses are used to study the coherent nonlinear response of bulk InSb by means of field-resolved four-wave mixing spectroscopy. At amplitudes above5 MV/cm the signals show a clear temporal substructure which is unexpected in perturbative nonlinear optics. Simulations based on a model of a two-level quantum system demonstrate that in spite of the strongly off-resonant character of the excitation the high-field few-cycle pulses drive the interband resonances into a nonperturbative regime of Rabi flopping. The rotating wave approximation breaks down in this case and the system reaches a complete population inversion.

引用

页数：5

共 27 条

[1] MODEL DIELECTRIC-CONSTANTS OF GAP, GAAS, GASB, INP, INAS, AND INSB [J].

ADACHI, S .

PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 1987, 35 (14) :7454-7463

[2] Effect of non-centrosymmetry on Stark broadening in bulk indium antimonide crystal [J].

Andrews, JT ;

Sen, P .

QUANTUM AND SEMICLASSICAL OPTICS, 1998, 10 (05) :663-669

[3] Quantum coherence in an optical modulator [J].

Carter, SG ;

Birkedal, V ;

Wang, CS ;

Coldren, LA ;

Maslov, AV ;

Citrin, DS ;

Sherwin, MS .

SCIENCE, 2005, 310 (5748) :651-653

[4] Ultrafast Rabi flopping and coherent pulse propagation in a quantum cascade laser [J].

Choi, Hyunyong ;

Gkortsas, Vasileios-Marios ;

Diehl, Laurent ;

Bour, David ;

Corzine, Scott ;

Zhu, Jintian ;

Hoefler, Gloria ;

Capasso, Federico ;

Kaertner, Franz X. ;

Norris, Theodore B. .

NATURE PHOTONICS, 2010, 4 (10) :706-710

[5]

Cohen-Tannoudji C., 1977, Quantum Mechanics, V2nd

[6] Coherent manipulation of semiconductor quantum bits with terahertz radiation [J].

Cole, BE ;

Williams, JB ;

King, BT ;

Sherwin, MS ;

Stanley, CR .

NATURE, 2001, 410 (6824) :60-63

[7] RABI FLOPPING IN SEMICONDUCTORS [J].

CUNDIFF, ST ;

KNORR, A ;

FELDMANN, J ;

KOCH, SW ;

GOBEL, EO ;

NICKEL, H .

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 1994, 73 (08) :1178-1181

[8] Self-induced transmission on a free exciton resonance in a semiconductor [J].

Giessen, H ;

Knorr, A ;

Haas, S ;

Koch, SW ;

Linden, S ;

Kuhl, J ;

Hetterich, M ;

Grun, M ;

Klingshirn, C .

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 1998, 81 (19) :4260-4263

[9] High harmonics generated in semiconductor nanostructures by the coupled dynamics of optical inter- and intraband excitations [J].

Golde, D. ;

Meier, T. ;

Koch, S. W. .

PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2008, 77 (07)

[10] Generation of high-power terahertz pulses by tilted-pulse-front excitation and their application possibilities [J].

Hebling, Janos ;

Yeh, Ka-Lo ;

Hoffmann, Matthias C. ;

Bartal, Balazs ;

Nelson, Keith A. .

JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS, 2008, 25 (07) :B6-B19

← 1 2 3 →