Ultrashort pulse propagation effects in semiconductor microcavities

✍ Scribed by M. Kira; F. Jahnke; S.W. Koch

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 561 KB
• Volume: 102
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0038-1098
• DOI: 10.1016/s0038-1098(96)00044-0

✦ Synopsis

A microscopic theory is used to study femtosecond pulse propagation through a semiconductor microcavity containing one or more quantum wells. The ultrafast cavity mode build-up is investigated and the dynamical interplay of the field with the quantum-well electron-hole excitations is analyzed. Normal-mode coupling as well as radiative coupling between the quantum wells is shown to depend strongly on the placement of the quantum wells inside the microcavity.