Demonstration of the optical Kerr effect at 10.6 μm via intersubband nonlinearities in a multi-quantum well structure
- 16 November 1992
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 61 (20) , 2403-2405
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.108178
Abstract
We demonstrate the optical Kerr effect at 10.6 μm in a GaAs/AlGaAs multi-quantum well doped structure. The effect is due to the nonlinear susceptibility χ(3) near a resonant intersubband transition.Keywords
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