Title

Polarization Dependent Four-Wave-Mixing And Two-Photon Coherence In Solids

Abstract

Polarization dependent degenerate-four-wave-mixing experiments on semiconductors (ZnSe, CdS) and dielectrics (NaCl, PbF2) reveal the essential mechanisms of the bound-electronic χ(3). We show, for the first time, that the observed anomalous dispersion of the polarization dependent phase-conjugate reflectivity can be explained using a simple 3-band model. The near vanishing reflectivity in the two-photon coherence geometry is shown to be a consequence of the interference between transitions originating from heavy- and light-hole valence bands. We also present measurements on the polarization dichroism of the nonlinear refractive index (n2), in good agreement with this simple theory. Copyright 1995 IEEE

Publication Date

1-1-1995

Publication Title

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volume

31

Issue

7

Number of Pages

1270-1273

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/3.391091

Socpus ID

0029342051 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0029342051

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