Ultrafast pump-probe dynamics in ZnSe-based semiconductor quantum wells
Abstract
Pump-probe experiments are used as a controllable way to investigate the properties of photoexcited semiconductors, in particular, the absorption saturation. We present an experiment-theory comparison for ZnSe quantum wells, investigating the energy renormalization and bleaching of the excitonic resonances. Experiments were performed with spin-selective excitation and above-bandgap pumping. The model, based on the semiconductor Bloch equations in the screened Hartree-Fock approximation, takes various scattering processes into account phenomenologically. Comparing numerical results with available experimental data, we explain the experimental results and find that the electron spin-flip occurs on a time scale of 30 ps.
- Publication:
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Journal of the Optical Society of America B Optical Physics
- Pub Date:
- September 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1364/JOSAB.19.002022
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0807.3092
- Bibcode:
- 2002JOSAB..19.2022O
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter - Materials Science
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, 9 figures. Key words: nonlinear and ultrafast optics, modeling of femtosecond pump-probe experiments, electron spin-flip time