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ArticleScientific reports2019

Polarimetry of photon echo on charged and neutral excitons in semiconductor quantum wells.

S V Poltavtsev, Yu V Kapitonov, I A Yugova, I A Akimov, D R Yakovlev, G Karczewski, M Wiater, T Wojtowicz, M Bayer

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

S V PoltavtsevExperimentelle Physik 2, Technische Universität Dortmund, 44221, Dortmund, Germany. sergei.poltavtcev@tu-dortmund.de.
Yu V KapitonovPhysics Faculty, St. Petersburg State University, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia.
I A YugovaPhysics Faculty, St. Petersburg State University, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia.
I A AkimovExperimentelle Physik 2, Technische Universität Dortmund, 44221, Dortmund, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2035-2324
D R YakovlevExperimentelle Physik 2, Technische Universität Dortmund, 44221, Dortmund, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7349-2745
G KarczewskiInstitute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, PL-02668, Warsaw, Poland.
M WiaterInstitute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, PL-02668, Warsaw, Poland.
T WojtowiczInternational Research Centre MagTop, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, PL-02668, Warsaw, Poland.
M BayerExperimentelle Physik 2, Technische Universität Dortmund, 44221, Dortmund, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0893-5949
Institute of Physics · PLSt Petersburg University · RUTU Dortmund University · DE

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) CRC TRR 142Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) ICRC TRR 160Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) 16-29-03115 ofi_mRussian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) 19-52-12046 NNIO_aSaint Petersburg State University (St. Petersburg State University) 11.34.2.2012Saint Petersburg State University (St. Petersburg State University) Pure-SPBU-34825718
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Abstract

Coherent optical spectroscopy such as four-wave mixing and photon echo generation deliver rich information on the energy levels involved in optical transitions through the analysis of polarization of the coherent response. In semiconductors, it can be applied to distinguish between different exciton complexes, which is a highly non-trivial problem in optical spectroscopy. We develop a simple approach based on photon echo polarimetry, in which polar plots of the photon echo amplitude are measured as function of the angle φ between the linear polarizations of the two exciting pulses. The rosette-like polar plots reveal a distinct difference between the neutral and charged exciton (trion) optical transitions in semiconductor nanostructures. We demonstrate this experimentally by photon echo polarimetry of a CdTe/(Cd, Mg)Te quantum well. The echoes of the trion and donor-bound exciton are linearly polarized at the angle 2φ with respect to the first pulse polarization and their amplitudes are weakly dependent on φ. While on the exciton the photon echo is co-polarized with the second exciting pulse and its amplitude scales as cosφ.

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