Coherent Control in Atoms, Molecules, and Semiconductors

229 Pages·1999·11.007 MB·English

by  Paul Brumer, Moshe Shapiro (auth.), Walter Pötz, W. Andreas Schroeder (eds.)

Coherent Control in Atoms, Molecules, and Semiconductors
Coherent Control in Atoms,
Molecules, and
Semiconductors
Proceedings of an International Workshop held in Chicago,
U.S.A., 19-22 May 1998
Edited by
Walter Pötz
Department of Physics,
University of Illinois at Chicago,
USA.
and
W. Andreas Schroeder
Department of Physics,
University of Illinois at Chicago,
USA.
Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V.
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LIST OF SPONSORS
u.s.
Office of Naval Research
U.S. Army Research Office
Vice-Chancellor's Office for Research, University of lllinois at Chicago
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of lllinois at Chicago
Department of Physics, University of lllinois at Chicago
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF SPONSORS v
PREFACE xi
PART I: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SYSTEMS 1
P. Brumer and M. Shapiro
Scenarios in Coherent Control 3
D. Charalambidis, N. E. Karapanagioti, D. Xenakis,
E. Papastathopoulos, C. Fotakis, o. Faucher; E. Hertz,
S. Cavalieri, R. Eramo, L. Fini, and M. Materazzi
Quantum Control in Atomic Systems 15
F. Wang, J. Huang, and D. S. Elliott
Laser-phase-sensitive Coherent Control of 27
Photoion Product States in 2-Photon vs. 2-Photon
Ionization of Atomic Barium
R. J. Gordon, J. A. Fiss, L. Zhu, and T. Seideman
Coherent Phase control of Photoionization and 39
Photodissociation
P. Lambropoulos and T. Nakajima
Coherent Control of Atomic Photoionization and 51
Autoionization
M. o. Scully, M. Fleischhauer, E. S. Fry, A. Imamoglu,
M. D. Lukin, D. Nikonov, Th. Walther, and S. F. Yelin
Lasing Without Inversion via Interference of 63
Double-Dark Resonances in Atomic and
Quantum Well Systems
viii
PART II: COHERENT CONTROL IN SEMICONDUCTORS 73
H. M. van Driel, J. E. Sipe, A. Hache, and J. M. Fraser
Coherence Control of Free Carriers in Bulk 75
Semiconductors
X. Marie, T. Amand, P. Le Jeune, M. Brousseau, and
J. Barrau
Coherent Control of 2D Excitons Probed by 87
Time-Resolved Secondary Emission
R. Binder and M. Lindberg
Many-Body Effects in the Ultrafast Population 103
Transfer in p-Doped Semiconductor Quantum
Wells
T. Kuhn, V. M. Axt, M. Herbst, and E. Binder
Coherent Control of Heavy-Light Hole and 113
Phonon Quantum Beats
X. Hu and W. Potz
Coherent Control Schemes in Semiconductor 127
Double Wells
S. Hughes and D. S. Citrin
Terahertz-Control of Charge-Carrier Wavepackets 147
in Semiconductor Quantum Wells
H.Cao
Microcavity Exciton-Polariton 157
ix
PART III: COHERENT PHENOMENA AND RELATED TOPICS 169
M. Holthaus
Coherent Control of Quantum Localization 171
M. Wagner
Tunneling of Low-Energetic Electrons in the 183
Presence of Intense Laser Fields: The Formation
of Dynamical Barrier States
E. M. Baskin and M. V. Entin
Hopping Mechanism of Coherent Photovoltaic 191
Effect and Photoinduced Polar Anisotropy in
Glass
J. B. Khurgin, B. Saif, and B. Seery
Heterodyning Scheme Employing Quantum 203
Interference
K. Kawase and H. Ito
Generation of Widely Tunable THz-Wave Using 213
Nonlinear Optics
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS 221
PREFACE
The International Workshop on Coherent Control of Carrier Dynamics in
Semiconductors was held May 19 to 22, 1998 at the University of Illinois
at Chicago. Its intent was to bring together an international and
interdisciplinary group of scientists to discuss recent progress, pertinent
problems, and open questions in the field of coherent control in atoms,
molecules, and semiconductors, in particular. Twenty-seven scientists
from the physical chemistry, quantum optics, semiconductor, electrical
engineering, and laser communities accepted our invitation and made this
event a meeting of exciting presentations and vivid discussions.
This volume contains the proceedings of this workshop. Most speakers
accepted our invitation to provide a manuscript either on specific aspects
of their work or a brief review of their area of research. All manuscripts
were reviewed. It is hoped that they provide not merely an overview of
most of the issues covered during the workshop, but also represent an
account of the current state of coherent control in general. Hence, it is
hoped that they are also of interest to a large number of scientists active
in one of the areas listed above.
The organizers of this workshop would like to thank all the participants
for making this meeting a complete success. We are particularly indebted
to Dr. Larry R. Cooper at the U.S. Office of Naval Research and Dr.
Michael A. Stroscio at the U.S. Army Research Office for external
financial support. We also wish to thank the Vice-Chancellor's Office for
Research, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Department of
Physics at the University of Illinois-':a t Chicago for internal financial
support. Finally, we wish to thank Dr. Xuedong Hu, Dr. Manjusha
Mehenda~e, Tatiana Krivocheeva, and Nathan W. Rimington for help
with the organization of this workshop.
Walter Potz, Chair
W. Andreas Schroeder, Co-Chair
October, 1998
Xl
PART I: Atomic and Molecular Systems
SCENARIOS IN COHERENT CONTROL
PAUL BRUMER
Chemical Physics Theory Group and
Photonics Research Ontario
University of Toronto
Toronto M5S 3H6 Canada
AND
MOSHE SHAPIRO
Chemical Physics Department,
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel 76100
Abstract. Coherent control of molecular processes provides a means of
controlling the dynamics of molecules, and of molecular processes, via'laser
induced quantum interference. We briefly review this approach, with a fo
cus on scenarios useful for controlled currents in semiconductors and on
alternate new control scenarios.
1. Introduction
Since 1986, efforts to control molecular motion and molecular processes
have turned to the use of quantum interference as a means of directing
molecules towards desired goals. Below we provide a brief sketch of the
ideas which underlay the coherent control approach and call attention to
the two scenarios which have either been proposed or utilized to control
photocurrents in semiconductors. In addition we mention recent new di
rections in this area. Both comprehensive (Shapiro & Brumer 1997) and
elementary reviews (Brumer & Shapiro 1995) are available elsewhere. Al
ternate methods of addressing the molecular control problem have also been
recently reviewed by Gordon and Rice (1997).
Many of the proposed coherent control scenarios rely upon a simple way
of achieving active control over the prepared and final state of the system.
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