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Quantum coherence induces pulse shape modification in a semiconductor optical amplifier at room temperature

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  • Mirco Kolarczik

    (Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin)

  • Nina Owschimikow

    (Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin)

  • Julian Korn

    (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin)

  • Benjamin Lingnau

    (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin)

  • Yücel Kaptan

    (Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin)

  • Dieter Bimberg

    (Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Berlin)

  • Eckehard Schöll

    (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin)

  • Kathy Lüdge

    (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin)

  • Ulrike Woggon

    (Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin)

Abstract

Coherence in light–matter interaction is a necessary ingredient if light is used to control the quantum state of a material system. Coherent effects are firmly associated with isolated systems kept at low temperature. The exceedingly fast dephasing in condensed matter environments, in particular at elevated temperatures, may well erase all coherent information in the material at timescales shorter than a laser excitation pulse. Here we show for an ensemble of semiconductor quantum dots that even in the presence of ultrafast dephasing, for suitably designed condensed matter systems quantum-coherent effects are robust enough to be observable at room temperature. Our conclusions are based on an analysis of the reshaping an ultrafast laser pulse undergoes on propagation through a semiconductor quantum dot amplifier. We show that this pulse modification contains the signature of coherent light–matter interaction and can be controlled by adjusting the population of the quantum dots via electrical injection.

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  • Mirco Kolarczik & Nina Owschimikow & Julian Korn & Benjamin Lingnau & Yücel Kaptan & Dieter Bimberg & Eckehard Schöll & Kathy Lüdge & Ulrike Woggon, 2013. "Quantum coherence induces pulse shape modification in a semiconductor optical amplifier at room temperature," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 4(1), pages 1-7, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:4:y:2013:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms3953
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3953
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