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The coherent control of a quantum system by light relies on the possibility to control both the amplitude and the phase of its photoexcited states. It consists in producing interferences between different excitation quantum paths, each one resulting from the interaction of the electromagnetic field with the system. Among the different kinds of control investigated, the use of a sequence of two time delayed ultrashort optical pulses allows to create two temporally separated excitation paths. Temporal coherent control is based on the interferences between these two excitation paths. It can be achieved if the excited system stays coherent for a time longer than the time delay between the two excitation pulses. Coherent control was introduced more than one decade ago in atomic and molecular physics [1, 2]. In solids, particularly in semiconductors and their related quantum structures, the phase relaxation times are in the picosecond range, so the investigation of coherent phenomena requires the use of the stable ultrafast laser sources only recently developped.
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Marie, X., Amand, T., Le Jeunea, P., Brousseau, M., Barrau, J. (1999). Coherent Control of 2D Excitons Probed by Time-Resolved Secondary Emission. In: Pötz, W., Schroeder, W.A. (eds) Coherent Control in Atoms, Molecules, and Semiconductors. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4552-7_8
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