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Excitonic optical nonlinearities are exploited in room temperature InGaAsP multiple quantum wells to determine the in-well carrier mobilities and spin relaxation processes. The picosecond time scale of the spin relaxation leads to the creation of a fast all-optical polarisation switch by using a circular polarised excite and a linear polarised probe pulse. It is demonstrated that the operation of the switch is dependent on the sense of circular polarisation of the probe. An optically induced birefringence is identified.
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Marshall, D., Miller, A. Carrier transport, ultrafast spin dynamics and polarisation switching in InGaAsP multiple quantum wells. Optical and Quantum Electronics 33, 1019–1034 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017507430891
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