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Generation and Coherent Control of Pulsed Quantum Frequency Combs
Published on: June 8, 2018
Carrier-envelope phase control of carrier-wave Rabi flopping in asymmetric semiparabolic quantum well
Chaojin Zhang1, Xiaohong Song, Weifeng Yang
11State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China. chaojinzhang@163.com
Abstract:
We investigate the carrier-wave Rabi flopping effects in an asymmetric semiparabolic semiconductor quantum well (QW) with few-cycle pulse. It is found that higher spectral components of few-cycle ultrashort pulses in the semiparabolic QW depend crucially on the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of the few-cycle ultrashort pulses: continuum and distinct peaks can be achieved by controlling the CEP. Our results demonstrate that by adjusting the CEP of few-cycle ultrashort pulses, the intersubband dynamics in the asymmetric semiparabolic QW can be controlled in an ultrashort timescale with moderate laser intensity.
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