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Optical four-wave mixing in pbte epitaxial layers

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Physics of Narrow Gap Semiconductors

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Optical four-wave mixing of the beams of two CO2 lasers was observed in n-PbTe epitaxial films on BaF2 substrates. We found four kinds of resonances:

a) Quantum oscillations of the nonparabolicity induced mixing; b) spin resonances; c) cyclotron resonances and d) combined cyclotron and spin resonances of the nonlinear susceptibility.

Due to the narrow linewidth of the resonances of a few hundred Gauss we obtained very precise data on the effective g-values, effective masses and anisotropy of the conduction band of PbTe. These data are compared with results from adjusting the six-band parameters to account for interband magneto-absorption measurements of Appold et al.

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  1. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Würzburg, D-8700, Würzburg, Germany

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E. Gornik H. Heinrich L. Palmetshofer

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Pascher, H. (1982). Optical four-wave mixing in pbte epitaxial layers. In: Gornik, E., Heinrich, H., Palmetshofer, L. (eds) Physics of Narrow Gap Semiconductors. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 152. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-11191-3_33

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