Nonlinear response of radiatively coupled intersubband transitions of quasi-two-dimensional electrons

T. Shih,1,* K. Reimann,1,† M. Woerner,1,‡ T. Elsaesser,1 I. Waldmuller,2,§ A. Knorr,2 R. Hey,3 and K. H. Ploog3 1Max-Born-Institut fur Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, 12489 Berlin, Germany 2Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Technische Universitat Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany 3Paul-Drude-Institut fur Festkorperelektronik, 10117 Berlin, Germany Received 2 September 2005; published 23 November 2005

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