Theoretical analysis of the interaction between semiconductor nanostructures and quantum light: from single pulses to four-wave mixing / vorgelegt von Hendrik Rose ; Vorsitzender der Promotionskommission: Prof. Dr. Tim Bartley, Erstgutachter: Prof. Dr. Torsten Meier, Zweitgutachterin: J.-Prof. Dr. Polina Sharapova, Drittgutachter: Prof. Dr. Stefan Schumacher, Mitglied der Promotionskommission: Dr. Uwe Gerstmann. Paderborn, 2022
Inhalt
- Introduction
- Fundamentals
- Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field
- Fock-State Representation
- Special Quantum States of Light
- Light-Matter Interaction
- Dark-State and Loss-Induced Phenomena
- Equations of Motion
- Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
- Classical and Quantum Polarization
- Control of Steady States with Cavity Losses
- Conclusions
- Population Dynamics of Two-Band Models
- Semiclassical Wave Mixing
- Wave-Mixing Experiments
- Optical Bloch Equations
- Control of Photon Echoes
- Overcoming Damping Induced by Spatial Averaging
- Conclusions
- Quantum Wave Mixing
- Summary and Outlook
- Bibliography