TY - JOUR AU - Rose, Hendrik AU - Vasil'ev, A. N. AU - Tikhonova, O. V. AU - Meier, Torsten AU - Sharapova, Polina ID - 37280 IS - 1 JF - Physical Review A SN - 2469-9926 TI - Quantum-optical excitations of semiconductor nanostructures in a microcavity using a two-band model and a single-mode quantum field VL - 107 ER - TY - CONF AB - The nonlinear optical response of quantum well excitons is investigated experimentally using polarization resolved four wave mixing, optical-pump optical-probe, and optical-pump Terahertz-probe spectroscopy. The four-wave mixing data reveal clear signatures of coherent biexcitons which concur with straight-forward polarization selection rules at the Γ point. The type-I samples show the well-established time-domain beating signatures in the transients as well as the corresponding spectral signatures clearly. The latter are also present in type-II samples; however, the smaller exciton and biexciton binding energies in these structures infer longer beating times which, in turn, are accompanied by faster dephasing of the type-II exciton coherences. Furthermore, the THz absorption following spectrally narrow, picosecond excitation at energies in the vicinity of the 1s exciton resonance are discussed. Here, the optical signatures yield the well-established redshifts and blueshifts for the appropriate polarization geometries in type-I quantum well samples also termed “AC Stark Effect”. The THz probe reveals intriguing spectral features which can be ascribed to coherent negative absorption following an excitation into a virtual state for an excitation below the 1s exciton resonance. Furthermore, the scattering and ionization of excitons is discussed for several excitation geometries yielding control rules for elastic and inelastic quasiparticle collisions. AU - Meier, Torsten AU - Stein, M. AU - Schäfer, F. AU - Anders, D. AU - Littmann, J. H. AU - Fey, M. AU - Trautmann, Alexander AU - Ngo, C. AU - Steiner, J. T. AU - Reichelt, Matthias AU - Fuchs, C. AU - Volz, K. AU - Chatterjee, S. ID - 43189 T2 - Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XXVII TI - Experimental studies of the excitonic nonlinear response of GaAs-based type-I and type-II quantum well structures interacting with optical and terahertz fields VL - 12419 ER - TY - CONF AB - Anomalous currents refer to electronic currents that flow perpendicularly to the direction of the accelerating electric field. Such anomalous currents can be generated when Terahertz fields are applied after an optical interband excitation of GaAs quantum wells. The underlying processes are investigated by numerical solutions of the semiconductor Bloch equations in the length gauge. Excitonic effects are included by treating the manybody Coulomb interaction in time-dependent Hartree-Fock approximation and additionally also carrier-phonon scattering processes are considered. The band structure and matrix elements are obtained from a 14-band k · p model within the envelope function approximation. The random phase factors of the matrix elements that appear due to the separate numerical diagonalization at each k-point are treated by applying a smooth gauge transformation. We present the macroscopic Berry curvature and anomalous current transients with and without excitonic effects. It is demonstrated that the resonant optical excitation of excitonic resonances can significantly enhance the Berry curvature and the anomalous currents. AU - Meier, Torsten AU - Ngo, C. AU - Priyadarshi, S. AU - Duc, H. T. AU - Bieler, M. ID - 43191 T2 - Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XXVII TI - Terahertz-induced anomalous currents following the optical excitation of excitons in semiconductor quantum wells VL - 12419 ER - TY - CONF AB - The nonlinear optical response of quantum well excitons excited by optical fields is analyzed by numerical solutions of the semiconductor Bloch equations. Differential absorption spectra are computed for resonant pumping at the exciton resonance and the dependence of the absorption changes on the polarization directions of the pump and probe pulses is investigated. Coherent biexcitonic many-body correlations are included in our approach up to third-order in the optical fields. Results are presented for spatially-direct type-I and spatiallyindirect type-II quantum well systems. Due to the spatial inhomogeneity, in type-II structures a finite coupling between excitons of opposite spins exists already on the Hartree-Fock level and contributes to the absorption changes for the case of opposite circularly polarized pump and probe pulses. AU - Meier, Torsten AU - Trautmann, Alexander AU - Stein, M. AU - Schäfer, F. AU - Anders, D. AU - Ngo, C. AU - Steiner, J. T. AU - Reichelt, Matthias AU - Chatterjee, S. ID - 43190 T2 - Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XXVII TI - Analysis of the nonlinear optical response of excitons in type-I and type-II quantum wells including many-body correlations VL - 12419 ER - TY - JOUR AU - Meier, Torsten AU - Schäfer, F. AU - Stein, M. AU - Lorenz, J. AU - Dobener, F. AU - Ngo, C. AU - Steiner, J. T. AU - Fuchs, C. AU - Stolz, W. AU - Volz, K. AU - Hader, J. AU - Moloney, J.V. AU - Koch, S.W. AU - Chatterjee, S. ID - 43139 IS - 8 JF - Applied Physics Letters TI - Gain recovery dynamics in active type-II semiconductor heterostructures VL - 122 ER - TY - GEN AU - Meier, Torsten AU - Grisard, S. AU - Trifonov, A.V. AU - Rose, Hendrik AU - Reichhardt, R. AU - Reichelt, Matthias AU - Schneider, C. AU - Kamp, M. AU - Höfling, S. AU - Bayer, M. AU - Akimov, I.A ID - 43132 T2 - arxiv:2302.02480 TI - Temporal sorting of optical multi-wave-mixing processes in semiconductor quantum dots ER - TY - CONF AB - The nonlinear optical response of an ensemble of semiconductor quantum dots is analyzed by wave-mixing processes, where we focus on four-wave mixing with two incident pulses. Wave-mixing experiments are often described with semiclassical models, where the light is modeled classically and the material quantum mechanically. Here, however, we use a fully quantized model, where the light is given by a quantum state of light. Quantum light involves more degrees of freedom than classical light as e.g., its photon statistics and quantum correlations, which is a promising resource for quantum devices, such as quantum memories. The light-matter interaction is treated with a Jaynes-Cummings type model and the quantum field is given by a single mode since the quantum dots are embedded in a microcavity. We present numerical simulations of the four-wave-mixing response of a homogeneous system for pulse sequences and find a significant dependence of the result on the photon statistics of the incident pulses. The model constitutes a problem with a large state space which arises from the frequency distribution of the transition energies of the inhomogeneously broadened quantum dot ensemble that is coupled with a quantum light mode. Here we approximate the dynamics by summing over individual quantum dot-microcavity systems. Photon echoes arising from the excitation with different quantum states of light are simulated and compared. AU - Rose, Hendrik AU - Grisard, S. AU - Trifonov, A. V. AU - Reichhardt, R. AU - Reichelt, Matthias AU - Bayer, M. AU - Akimov, I. A. AU - Meier, Torsten ID - 43192 T2 - Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XXVII TI - Theoretical analysis of four-wave mixing on semiconductor quantum dot ensembles with quantum light VL - 12419 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Since high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from atoms depends sensitively on the polarization of the driving laser field, the polarization gating (PG) technique was developed and applied successfully to generate isolated attosecond pulses from atomic gases. The situation is, however, different in solid-state systems as it has been demonstrated that due to collisions with neighboring atomic cores of the crystal lattice strong HHG can be generated even by elliptically- and circularly-polarized laser fields. Here we apply PG to solid-state systems and find that the conventional PG technique is inefficient for the generation of isolated ultrashort harmonic pulse bursts. In contrast, we demonstrate that a polarization-skewed laser pulse is able to confine the harmonic emission to a time window of less than one-tenth of the laser cycle. This method provides a novel way to control HHG and to generate isolated attosecond pulses in solids. AU - Song, Xiaohong AU - Yang, Shidong AU - Wang, Guifang AU - Lin, Jianpeng AU - Wang, Liang AU - Meier, Torsten AU - Yang, Weifeng ID - 45704 IS - 12 JF - Optics Express KW - Atomic and Molecular Physics KW - and Optics SN - 1094-4087 TI - Control of the electron dynamics in solid-state high harmonic generation on ultrafast time scales by a polarization-skewed laser pulse VL - 31 ER - TY - JOUR AU - Zuo, Ruixin AU - Song, Xiaohong AU - Ben, Shuai AU - Meier, Torsten AU - Yang, Weifeng ID - 45703 IS - 2 JF - Physical Review Research KW - General Physics and Astronomy SN - 2643-1564 TI - Revealing the nonadiabatic tunneling dynamics in solid-state high harmonic generation VL - 5 ER - TY - JOUR AU - Belobo, D. Belobo AU - Meier, Torsten ID - 45709 JF - Results in Physics KW - General Physics and Astronomy SN - 2211-3797 TI - Manipulation of nonautonomous nonlinear wave solutions of the generalized coupled Gross–Pitaevskii equations with spin–orbit interaction and weak Raman couplings ER - TY - JOUR AU - Ali, Usman AU - Holthaus, Martin AU - Meier, Torsten ID - 49059 IS - 4 JF - Physical Review Research KW - General Physics and Astronomy SN - 2643-1564 TI - Chirped Bloch-harmonic oscillations in a parametrically forced optical lattice VL - 5 ER - TY - JOUR AU - Ali, Usman AU - Holthaus, Martin AU - Meier, Torsten ID - 52122 IS - 4 JF - Physical Review Research KW - General Physics and Astronomy SN - 2643-1564 TI - Chirped Bloch-harmonic oscillations in a parametrically forced optical lattice VL - 5 ER - TY - DATA AU - Meier, Torsten ID - 52124 TI - Chirped Bloch-harmonic oscillations in a parametrically forced optical lattice ER - TY - JOUR AB - Abstract The interaction between quantum light and matter is being intensively studied for systems that are enclosed in high-Q cavities which strongly enhance the light–matter coupling. Cavities with low Q-factors are generally given less attention due to their high losses that quickly destroy quantum systems. However, bad cavities can be utilized for several applications, where lower Q-factors are required, e.g., to increase the spectral width of the cavity mode. In this work, we demonstrate that low-Q cavities can be beneficial for preparing specific electronic steady states when certain quantum states of light are applied. We investigate the interaction between quantum light with various statistics and matter represented by a Λ-type three-level system in lossy cavities, assuming that cavity losses are the dominant loss mechanism. We show that cavity losses lead to non-trivial electronic steady states that can be controlled by the loss rate and the initial statistics of the quantum fields. We discuss the mechanism of the formation of such steady states on the basis of the equations of motion and present both analytical expressions and numerical simulations for such steady states. AU - Rose, Hendrik AU - Tikhonova, O V AU - Meier, Torsten AU - Sharapova, Polina ID - 37318 IS - 6 JF - New Journal of Physics KW - General Physics and Astronomy SN - 1367-2630 TI - Steady states of Λ-type three-level systems excited by quantum light with various photon statistics in lossy cavities VL - 24 ER - TY - JOUR AU - Grisard, S. AU - Rose, Hendrik AU - Trifonov, A. V. AU - Reichhardt, R. AU - Reiter, D. E. AU - Reichelt, Matthias AU - Schneider, C. AU - Kamp, M. AU - Höfling, S. AU - Bayer, M. AU - Meier, Torsten AU - Akimov, I. A. ID - 37319 IS - 20 JF - Physical Review B SN - 2469-9950 TI - Multiple Rabi rotations of trions in InGaAs quantum dots observed by photon echo spectroscopy with spatially shaped laser pulses VL - 106 ER - TY - CONF AU - Trautmann, Alexander AU - Zuo, Ruixin AU - Wang, Guifang AU - Hannes, Wolf-Rüdiger AU - Yang, Shidong AU - Thong, Le Huu AU - Ngo, Cong AU - Steiner, Johannes AU - Ciappina, Marcelo AU - Reichelt, Matthias AU - Duc, Huynh Thanh AU - Song, Xiaohong AU - Yang, Weifeng AU - Meier, Torsten ED - Betz, Markus ED - Elezzabi, Abdulhakem Y. ID - 37329 T2 - Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XXVI TI - Microscopic simulations of high harmonic generation from semiconductors VL - 11999 ER - TY - CONF AU - Rose, Hendrik AU - Tikhonova, Olga V. AU - Meier, Torsten AU - Sharapova, Polina ED - Betz, Markus ED - Elezzabi, Abdulhakem Y. ID - 37327 T2 - Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XXVI TI - Theoretical analysis of correlations between two quantum fields exciting a three-level system using the cluster-expansion approach VL - 11999 ER - TY - JOUR AU - Paul, J. AU - Rose, Hendrik AU - Swagel, E. AU - Meier, Torsten AU - Wahlstrand, J. K. AU - Bristow, A. D. ID - 37323 IS - 11 JF - Physical Review B SN - 2469-9950 TI - Coherent contributions to population dynamics in a semiconductor microcavity VL - 105 ER - TY - GEN AU - Meier, Torsten AU - Ali, Usman ID - 37325 T2 - Condensed Matter TI - Super-Bloch oscillations with parametric modulation of a parabolic trap ER - TY - CONF AB - We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally complex correlations in the photon numbers of two-mode quantum states using measurement-induced nonlinearity. For this, we combine the interference of coherent states and single photons with photon sub-traction. AU - Meier, Torsten AU - Hoepker, Jan Philipp AU - Protte, Maximilian AU - Eigner, Christof AU - Silberhorn, Christine AU - Sharapova, Polina R. AU - Sperling, Jan AU - Bartley, Tim ID - 43744 SN - 978-1-957171-05-0 T2 - Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics: Applications and Technology TI - Two-Mode Photon-Number Correlations Created by Measurement-Induced Nonlinearity ER -