Abstract
Coherent Rayleigh scattering and incoherent luminescence are studied by femtosecond upconversion under resonant excitation as a function of exciton density in GaAs quantum wells. Comparing samples with different well widths allows to establish the relation between inhomogeneous broadening and the shape of resonant Rayleigh scattering. We find an excellent agreement between experiment and a classical model. In samples with moderate inhomogeneous broadening we provide evidence for the transition from coherent to incoherent emission. The comparison with excitonic dephasing times T2 obtained from four-wave-mixing experiments demonstrates that the incoherent exciton population rises within T2/2, at any exciton density when changed by more than an orders of magnitude. The experimental results confirm very clearly the concept predicting that the coherent polarization made up by localized excitons decays into an incoherent exciton population under conservation of the number of excited quanta.
© 1998 Optical Society of America
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