TIME-RESOLVED VACUUM RABI OSCILLATIONS IN A SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM MICROCAVITY

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作者
NORRIS, TB
RHEE, JK
SUNG, CY
ARAKAWA, Y
NISHIOKA, M
WEISBUCH, C
机构
[1] UNIV TOKYO,INST IND SCI,MINATO KU,TOKYO 153,JAPAN
[2] THOMSON CSF,CENT RECH LAB,F-91404 ORSAY,FRANCE
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1994年 / 50卷 / 19期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.50.14663
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
We have used femtosecond optical spectroscopy to observe directly the vacuum Rabi oscillations associated with the coupled exciton-photon mode splitting in a semiconductor quantum microcavity. When the microcavity is impulsively excited by a coherent short optical pulse, the time-resolved emission from the cavity shows beats corresponding to the oscillation between cavity and exciton modes, with a decay corresponding to approximately twice the cavity lifetime. Interferometric pump-probe measurements clearly show the coherent evolution of the cavity polarization. © 1994 The American Physical Society.
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页码:14663 / 14666
页数:4
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