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Transient four-wave mixing (TFWM) experiments have been widely used to study the excitation dynamics of excitons in quantum wells [1]. Recently is has been observed that TFWM signals, especially quantum beats between heavy-hole (hh) and light-hole (lh) excitons, strongly depend on the polarization of the incident laser pulses [2–6]. This dependence is presently being investigated.
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Meier, T., Bennhardt, D., Thomas, P., Hu, Y.Z., Binder, R., Koch, S.W. (1994). Theory of Polarization-Dependent Four-Wave Mixing in Quantum Wells using the Optical Bloch Equations. In: Phillips, R.T. (eds) Coherent Optical Interactions in Semiconductors. NATO ASI Series, vol 330. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9748-0_26
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