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Phys. Rev. B 57, R2049–R2052 (1998)

Coupled absorber-cavity system: Observation of a characteristic nonlinear response

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Martin Koch* and Jagdeep Shah
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Crawfords Corner Road, Holmdel, New Jersey 07733

Torsten Meier†
Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627

Received 29 October 1997; published in the issue dated 15 January 1998

We investigate the nonlinear dynamics of the composite absorber-cavity system by performing femtosecond time-resolved four-wave mixing experiments on a semiconductor microcavity. The nonlinear response exhibits an unexpected temporal behavior that distinctively differs from that of other multilevel systems. Accompanying model calculations show that the observed behavior is a direct consequence of the mixed electron-photon character of the absorber-cavity system.

© 1998 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.57.R2049
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.57.R2049
PACS:
42.55.Sa, 31.40.Md, 78.47.+p

*Present address: Sektion Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Amalienstraβe 54, 80799 München, Germany.

†Present address: Fachbereich Physik, Phillips-Universitat, Renthof 5, 35032 Marburg, Germany.

 
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