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The coherent optical response from 140 nm and 65 nm thick ZnO epitaxial layers is studied using four-wave-mixing spectroscopy with picosecond temporal resolution. Resonant excitation of neutral donor-bound excitons results in two-pulse and three-pulse photon echoes. For the donor-bound A exciton (D0XA) at temperature of 1.8 K we evaluate optical coherence times T2=33-50 ps corresponding to homogeneous line widths of 13-19μeV, about two orders of magnitude smaller as compared with the inhomogeneous broadening of the optical transitions. The coherent dynamics is determined mainly by the population decay with time T1=30-40 ps, while pure dephasing is negligible. Temperature increase leads to a significant shortening of T2 due to interaction with acoustic phonons. In contrast, the loss of coherence of the donor-bound B exciton (D0XB) is significantly faster (T2=3.6ps) and governed by pure dephasing processes.
Translated title of the contribution | Время-разрешенное фотонное эхо на связанных на донорах экситонах в эпитаксиальных слоях ZnO |
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Original language | English |
Article number | 035203 |
Journal | Physical Review B-Condensed Matter |
Volume | 96 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 21 Jul 2017 |
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