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D. S. Chemla, D. A. B. Miller, P. W. Smith,
A. C. Gossard and W. Wiegmann, "Room Temperature Excitonic Nonlinear Absorption and
Refraction in GaAs/AlGaAs Multiple Quantum Well Structures," IEEE J. Quantum
Electron. QE-20, 265-275 (1984). Experimental studies and modeling of the
nonlinear absorption and refraction of GaAs/AlGaAs multiple quantum well structures (MQWS)
in the small-signal regime are presented. Nonlinear absorption and degenerate four-wave
mixing in the vicinity of the room temperature exciton resonances are observed and
analyzed. Spectra of the real and imaginary parts of the nonlinear cross section as a
function of wavelength are obtained, and these are in excellent agreement with
experimental data. A simple model for excitonic absorption saturation is proposed; it
accounts qualitatively for the very low saturation intensities of room-temperature
excitons in MQWS
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