Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 86, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.075412
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Funding
- NSF MRSEC [DMR 08-00254]
- AFOSR [FA9550-09-1-0117]
- DARPA [N66001-10-1-4022]
- Searle Foundation
- National Science Foundation [DMR-0844115]
- Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter Branches Cost-Sharing Fund
- University of Chicago
- Department of Energy under Section H.35 of U.S. Department of Energy [DE.AC02-06CHl1357]
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences User Facility [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [844115] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [820054] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Quantum dots exhibit rich and complex electronic structure that makes them ideal for studying the basic physics of semiconductors in the intermediate regime between bulk materials and single atoms. The remarkable nonlinear optical properties of these nanostructures make them strong candidates for photonics applications. Here, we experimentally probe changes in the fine structure on ultrafast timescales of a colloidal solution of PbS quantum dots through their nonlinear optical response despite extensive inhomogeneous spectral broadening. Using continuum excitation and detection, we observe electronic coupling between nearly degenerate exciton states split by intervalley scattering at low exciton occupancy and a sub-100 fs frequency shift presumably due to phonon-assisted transitions. At high excitation intensities, we observe multi-exciton effects and sharp absorbance bands indicative of exciton-exciton coupling. Our experiments directly probe the nonlinear optical response of nearly degenerate quantum confined nanostructures with femtosecond temporal resolution despite extensive line broadening caused by the finite size distribution found in colloidal solutions.
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