Thursday, August 30, 2012

1208.5863 (F. Junginger et al.)

Non-perturbative Interband Response of InSb Driven Off-resonantly by
Few-cycle Electromagnetic Transients
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F. Junginger, B. Mayer, C. Schmidt, O. Schubert, S. Mährlein, A. Leitenstorfer, R. Huber, A. Pashkin
Intense multi-THz pulses are used to study the coherent nonlinear response of bulk InSb by means of field-resolved four-wave mixing spectroscopy. At amplitudes above 5 MV/cm the signals show a clear temporal substructure which is unexpected in perturbative nonlinear optics. Simulations based on a two-level quantum system demonstrate that in spite of the strongly off-resonant character of the excitation the high-field pulses drive the interband resonances into a non-perturbative regime of Rabi flopping.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5863

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