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EnglishWe have studied two-photon nonlinear optical effects arising in a microcavity geometry from resonant two-photon absorption or second-harmonic generation. The transmission spectrum of the cavity is shown to depend on light intensity according to a simple two-level picture with an intensity-dependent coupling: at resonance the system exhibits a two-photon Rabi splitting. The absorption spectrum of a weak probe beam in a pumped cavity is found to strongly depend on pump intensity and detuning; the resulting effect is a sort of two-photon analogue of the usual optical Stark effect. For moderate pump intensities a two-level picture with a pump-dependent coupling can account for the main results, while at higher intensities new unexpected features show up; in particular, we predict the appearance of gain in well-determined spectral regions due to hyper-Raman processes. Finally, we have shown how the coupling coefficients appearing in our formalism can be obtained from a detailed knowledge of the material and geometrical properties of a specific system. For illustrative purposes, we have estimated the required light intensities using realistic data for a GaAs-based semiconductor microcavity. [S0163-1829(99)00932-7].
| Titolo: | Two-photon Rabi splitting and optical Stark effect in semiconductor microcavities |
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| Data di pubblicazione: | 1999 |
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| Abstract: | We have studied two-photon nonlinear optical effects arising in a microcavity geometry from resonant two-photon absorption or second-harmonic generation. The transmission spectrum of the cavity is shown to depend on light intensity according to a simple two-level picture with an intensity-dependent coupling: at resonance the system exhibits a two-photon Rabi splitting. The absorption spectrum of a weak probe beam in a pumped cavity is found to strongly depend on pump intensity and detuning; the resulting effect is a sort of two-photon analogue of the usual optical Stark effect. For moderate pump intensities a two-level picture with a pump-dependent coupling can account for the main results, while at higher intensities new unexpected features show up; in particular, we predict the appearance of gain in well-determined spectral regions due to hyper-Raman processes. Finally, we have shown how the coupling coefficients appearing in our formalism can be obtained from a detailed knowledge of the material and geometrical properties of a specific system. For illustrative purposes, we have estimated the required light intensities using realistic data for a GaAs-based semiconductor microcavity. [S0163-1829(99)00932-7]. |
| Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11384/7569 |
| Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.1 Articolo in rivista |
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