Two-Photon Coherent Polarization Flipping of Confined Excitons

• Authors: P. Machnikowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A two-photon process leading to coherent transitions between the two circularly polarized exciton states in a quantum dot is studied. It is shown that optical flipping of the exciton polarization is possible with picosecond laser pulses. The process is closely related to two-photon Rabi oscillations of a biexciton but it is much more stable against shifts of the laser frequency.

Keywords

EN

78.67.Hc

Discipline

• 78.67.Hc: Quantum dots

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 112
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 289-293

Dates

published

2007-08

received

2007-06-09

Contributors

author

P. Machnikowski

• Institute of Physics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.112.289