Polarimetry of photon echo on charged and neutral excitons in semiconductor quantum wells

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Polarimetry of photon echo on charged and neutral excitons in semiconductor quantum wells. / Poltavtsev, S.V.; Kapitonov, Y.V.; Yugova, I.A.; Akimov, I.A.; Yakovlev, D.R.; Karczewski, G.; Wiater, Maciej; Wojtowicz, Tomasz; Bayer, M.

In: Scientific Reports, Vol. 9, No. 1, 5666, 05.04.2019, p. 5666 .

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Poltavtsev, S.V. ; Kapitonov, Y.V. ; Yugova, I.A. ; Akimov, I.A. ; Yakovlev, D.R. ; Karczewski, G. ; Wiater, Maciej ; Wojtowicz, Tomasz ; Bayer, M. / Polarimetry of photon echo on charged and neutral excitons in semiconductor quantum wells. In: Scientific Reports. 2019 ; Vol. 9, No. 1. pp. 5666 .

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title = "Polarimetry of photon echo on charged and neutral excitons in semiconductor quantum wells",

abstract = "Coherent optical spectroscopy such as four-wave mixing and photon echo generation deliver rich information on the energy levels involved in optical transitions through the analysis of polarization of the coherent response. In semiconductors, it can be applied to distinguish between different exciton complexes, which is a highly non-trivial problem in optical spectroscopy. We develop a simple approach based on photon echo polarimetry, in which polar plots of the photon echo amplitude are measured as function of the angle phi between the linear polarizations of the two exciting pulses. The rosette-like polar plots reveal a distinct difference between the neutral and charged exciton (trion) optical transitions in semiconductor nanostructures. We demonstrate this experimentally by photon echo polarimetry of a CdTe/(Cd, Mg)Te quantum well. The echoes of the trion and donor-bound exciton are linearly polarized at the angle 2 phi with respect to the first pulse polarization and their amplitudes are weakly dependent on phi. While on the exciton the photon echo is co-polarized with the second exciting pulse and its amplitude scales as cos phi.",

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AU - Yugova, I.A.

AU - Akimov, I.A.

AU - Yakovlev, D.R.

AU - Karczewski, G.

AU - Wiater, Maciej

AU - Wojtowicz, Tomasz

AU - Bayer, M.

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