Optical Dephasing of Excitonic Polaritons in CuCl Studied by Time-Resolved, Nondegenerate Four-Wave Mixing
Author(s) -
Yasuaki Masumoto,
Shigeo Shionoya,
T. Takagahara
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
physical review letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.688
H-Index - 673
eISSN - 1079-7114
pISSN - 0031-9007
DOI - 10.1103/physrevlett.51.923
Subject(s) - dephasing , polariton , physics , omega , picosecond , resonance (particle physics) , exciton , four wave mixing , condensed matter physics , pulse (music) , mixing (physics) , atomic physics , optics , quantum mechanics , nonlinear optics , laser , detector
Optical dephasing of excitonic polaritons in CuCl is directly measured for the first time in the picosecond time domain by means of time-resolved, nondegenerate four-wave mixing. Dephasing of the ω1 polariton pulse is probed by an interrogation ω2 polariton pulse whose group velocity is faster than that of the ω1 polariton pulse. It is found that the dephasing damping constant Γ / 2 of excitonic polaritons is of order of 0.01 meV and increases as hω1 approaches the exciton resonance energy from below
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