Optical nonlinearities of excitons in CuCl microcrystals
Author(s) -
Yasuaki Masumoto,
Makoto Yamazaki,
Hideyuki Sugawara
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
applied physics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.182
H-Index - 442
eISSN - 1077-3118
pISSN - 0003-6951
DOI - 10.1063/1.99946
Subject(s) - exciton , saturation (graph theory) , nonlinear optical , absorption (acoustics) , materials science , blueshift , nonlinear optics , photoluminescence , quantum well , optical materials , condensed matter physics , molecular physics , optoelectronics , optics , chemistry , nonlinear system , laser , physics , quantum mechanics , mathematics , combinatorics , composite material
Nonlinear optical properties of excitons in CuCl microcrystals in NaCl host crystals were studied by the absorption saturation method. Prominent absorption saturation of excitons was observed together with a blue shift. Optical nonlinearity was found to increase with an increase in the size of the CuCl microcrystals. The observed nonlinearities are very large compared with those in bulk CuCl crystals and GaAs quantum wells
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