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Time-resolved photon echoes from donor-bound excitons in ZnO epitaxial layers. / Poltavtsev, S. V.; Kosarev, A. N.; Akimov, I. A.; Yakovlev, D. R.; Sadofev, S.; Puls, J.; Hoffmann, S. P.; Albert, M.; Meier, C.; Meier, T.; Bayer, M.
In: Physical Review B-Condensed Matter, Vol. 96, No. 3, 035203, 21.07.2017.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Time-resolved photon echoes from donor-bound excitons in ZnO epitaxial layers
AU - Poltavtsev, S. V.
AU - Kosarev, A. N.
AU - Akimov, I. A.
AU - Yakovlev, D. R.
AU - Sadofev, S.
AU - Puls, J.
AU - Hoffmann, S. P.
AU - Albert, M.
AU - Meier, C.
AU - Meier, T.
AU - Bayer, M.
N1 - Funding Information: We are grateful to A. V. Rodina for useful discussions. We acknowledge the financial support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through the Collaborative Research Centre TRR 142 (Project A02). S.V.P. thanks the Russian Foundation of Basic Research for partial financial support (Contract No. 15-52-12016 NNIO-a). M.B. acknowledges the partial financial support from the Russian Ministry of Science and Education (Contract No. 14.Z50.31.0021). J.P. and S.S. thank the DFG in the frame of SFB 951 (HIOS) for the funding. Publisher Copyright: © 2017 American Physical Society. Copyright: Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/7/21
Y1 - 2017/7/21
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.96.035203
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.96.035203
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85026439003
VL - 96
JO - Physical Review B-Condensed Matter
JF - Physical Review B-Condensed Matter
SN - 1098-0121
IS - 3
M1 - 035203
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