Spatial-harmonic gratings at high modulation depths in photorefractive quantum wells

QN Wang, DD Nolte, MR Melloch - Optics letters, 1991 - opg.optica.org
High-order spatial harmonics of photorefractive gratings are detected directly in multiwave
mixing experiments in photorefractive AlGaAs/GaAs quantum wells operating in the Franz …

Measurements of absorption coefficient and refractive index changes without the Kramers–Kronig relation in photorefractive quantum wells of GaAs

R Ramos-Garcia, R Chiu-Zarate, D Nolte… - Journal of Optics A …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
We measure the absorption coefficient and refractive index changes produced in
photorefractive quantum wells of GaAs by using a high-sensitivity periodically phase …

Reflection-geometry photorefractive quantum wells

DD Nolte, I Lahiri, MR Melloch - Optics letters, 1996 - opg.optica.org
We present what is to our knowledge the first demonstration of photorefractive AlGaAs/GaAs
quantum wells operated in the reflection geometry, using the quantum-confined Stark effect …

Steady-state four-wave mixing in photorefractive quantum wells with femtosecond pulses

RM Brubaker, QN Wang, DD Nolte, ES Harmon… - JOSA B, 1994 - opg.optica.org
Photorefractive AlGaAs-GaAs multiple-quantum-well structures perform as ultrafast field
autocorrelators during steady-state four-wave mixing by use of femtosecond pulses. The …

Robust infrared gratings in photorefractive quantum wells generated by an above‐band‐gap laser

DD Nolte, Q Wang, MR Melloch - Applied physics letters, 1991 - pubs.aip.org
Probe beam intensities more than an order of magnitude larger than pump beam intensities
do not erase photorefractive gratings during nondegenerate four-wave mixing in …

Theory of the photorefractive effect for multiple-quantum-well structures in perpendicular field reflection grating geometry

VV Shkunov, MV Zolotarev - JOSA B, 1995 - opg.optica.org
The theory of photorefractive grating formation in a semi-insulating GaAs/AlGaAs multiple-
quantum-well structure (MQWS) with an electric field applied across the layers and for …

Photorefractive quantum wells: transverse Franz–Keldysh geometry

Q Wang, RM Brubaker, DD Nolte, MR Melloch - JOSA B, 1992 - opg.optica.org
The photorefractive properties of semi-insulating AlGaAs–GaAs multiple quantum wells are
described for the transverse Franz–Keldysh geometry with the electric field in the plane of …

Transient dynamics during two-wave mixing in photorefractive quantum well diodes using moving gratings

I Lahiri, LJ Pyrak-Nolte, DD Nolte, MR Melloch - Optics Express, 1998 - opg.optica.org
The temporal dynamics of photorefractive and absorptive gains during two-wave mixing in
Stark geometry photorefractive quantum wells are investigated using moving gratings to …

Two-wave-mixing dynamics and nonlinear hot-electron transport in transverse-geometry photorefractive quantum wells studied by moving gratings

S Balasubramanian, I Lahiri, Y Ding, MR Melloch… - Applied Physics B, 1999 - Springer
The photorefractive response to an applied electric field is measured in a photorefractive
quantum well, providing evidence in favor of the nonlinear transport in the device due to the …

Two‐wave mixing in photorefractive AlGaAs/GaAs quantum wells

QN Wang, DD Nolte, MR Melloch - Applied physics letters, 1991 - pubs.aip.org
We have observed two‐wave mixing in semi‐insulating AlGaAs/GaAs multiple quantum well
structures at wavelengths near the exciton absorption. The photorefractive index changes …