
Carrier-envelope phase control of carrier-wave Rabi flopping in asymmetric semiparabolic quantum well
Author(s) -
Chaojin Zhang,
Song Xia,
Weifeng Yang,
Zhizhan Xu
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.16.001487
Subject(s) - carrier envelope phase , ultrashort pulse , physics , rabi cycle , quantum well , optics , envelope (radar) , phase (matter) , rabi frequency , laser , quantum , quantum mechanics , telecommunications , radar , computer science
We investigate the carrier-wave Rabi flopping effects in an asymmetric semiparabolic semiconductor quantum well (QW) with few-cycle pulse. It is found that higher spectral components of few-cycle ultrashort pulses in the semiparabolic QW depend crucially on the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of the few-cycle ultrashort pulses: continuum and distinct peaks can be achieved by controlling the CEP. Our results demonstrate that by adjusting the CEP of few-cycle ultrashort pulses, the intersubband dynamics in the asymmetric semiparabolic QW can be controlled in an ultrashort timescale with moderate laser intensity.