"Dressed Excitons" in a Multiple-Quantum-Well Structure: Evidence for an Optical Stark Effect with Femtosecond Response Time

A. Mysyrowicz, D. Hulin, A. Antonetti, A. Migus, W. T. Masselink, and H. Morkoç
Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 2748 – Published 23 June 1986
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Abstract

A very large high-energy shift of exciton resonances in GaAs multiple-quantum-well structures is observed during irradiation of the sample with femtosecond nonresonant radiation. This effect is discussed in terms of excitons "dressed" by photons.

  • Received 13 February 1986

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.2748

©1986 American Physical Society

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A. Mysyrowicz*, D. Hulin*, A. Antonetti, and A. Migus

  • Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, Ecole Polytechnique-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, F-91120 Palaiseau, France

W. T. Masselink and H. Morkoç

  • Coordinated Sciences Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801

  • *Also at Groupe de Physique des Solides de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.

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Vol. 56, Iss. 25 — 23 June 1986

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