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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 122, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.047403
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- DFG [SCHN1376/3-1, TRR 160, 269934647]
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) [19-52-12032]
- RFBR [16-32-60104, 17-52-10006]
- St-Petersburg State University [11.34.2.2012, 28874264]
- Royal Society International Exchange Grant [IEC/R2/170227]
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Dark excitons are of fundamental importance for a wide variety of processes in semiconductors but are difficult to investigate using optical techniques due to their weak interaction with light fields. We reveal and characterize dark excitons nonresonantly injected into a semiconductor microcavity structure containing InGaAs/GaAs quantum wells by a gated train of eight 100 fs pulses separated by 13 ns by monitoring their interactions with the bright lower polariton mode. We find a surprisingly long dark exciton lifetime of more than 20 ns, which is longer than the time delay between two consecutive pulses. This creates a memory effect that we clearly observe through the variation of the time-resolved transmission signal. We propose a rate equation model that provides a quantitative agreement with the experimental data.
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