• S. V. Poltavtsev
  • A. N. Kosarev
  • I. A. Akimov
  • D. R. Yakovlev
  • S. Sadofev
  • J. Puls
  • S. P. Hoffmann
  • M. Albert
  • C. Meier
  • T. Meier
  • M. Bayer

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 contributionВремя-разрешенное фотонное эхо на связанных на донорах экситонах в эпитаксиальных слоях ZnO
Original languageEnglish
Article number035203
JournalPhysical Review B-Condensed Matter
Volume96
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Jul 2017

    Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics

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