Hole-filling of persistent spectral holes in the excitonic absorption band of CuBr quantum dots

Autor: J. Moniatte, R. Levy, B. Hönerlage, Pierre Gilliot, A. I. Ekimov, Jan Valenta
Rok vydání: 1997
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Zdroj: Applied Physics Letters. 70:680-682
ISSN: 1077-3118
0003-6951
DOI: 10.1063/1.118273
Popis: Persistent spectral-holes (p-SH) are burned in the Z1,2 excitonic band of CuBr nanocrystals by a pulsed laser excitation. The annealing of p-SH is studied by three types of hole-filling (HF) experiments: (i) the spontaneous HF, (ii) thermally-induced HF, and (iii) the laser-induced HF. Results are compared to the well developed theory of the persistent spectral hole-burning (p-SHB) in the system of molecules in amorphous matrices. Both p-SHB and HF phenomena can be explained within the framework of a photochemical reaction like the photoionization of nanocrystals. The potential application of p-SHB to the frequency-domain optical data storage is discussed.
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