Far-Infrared Few-Cycle-Pulse Generation in Quantum-Well Heterostructures under Femtosecond Laser Pumping

A.A. Belyanin a,b, V.V. Kocharovsky a,b, Vl.V. Kocharovsky b, D.S. Pestov a,b and M.O. Scully a,c,d aInstitute for Quantum Studies and Physics Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA bInstitute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 46 Ulyanov str., 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia cDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA, dDepartments of Chemistry, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

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Received: 22 08 2004;

It is shown that the resonant nonlinear-wave mixing in the semiconductor quantum wells under a femtosecond optical pulse excitation can be used for the generation of the utmost short mid/far-infrared pulses with a few- or even single-cycle duration defined by pump duration.

DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.107.151 PACS numbers:42.55.Px, 42.60.-v