Study of interwell carrier transport by terahertz four-wave mixing in an optical amplifier with tensile and compressively strained quantum wells

Interwell carrier transport in a semiconductor optical amplifier having a structure of alternating tensile and compressively strained quantum wells was studied by four‐wave mixing at detuning frequencies up to 1 THz. A calculation of transbarrier transport efficiency is also presented to qualitatively explain the measured signal spectra.

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