Efficient four-wave mixing in four-subband semiconductor quantum wells using spatially modulated control fields with a linearly varying mixing angle

Abstract

In this article, we use spatially modulated control fields to increase the four-wave mixing efficiency in a four-subband semiconductor asymmetric double quantum well, motivated by similar works in atomic systems. Using a simplified version of the propagation equations, we show analytically that for control fields with constant amplitude and linearly varying mixing angle with the propagation distance, a conversion efficiency close to unity can be achieved even for relatively short propagation distances. Subsequently, we confirm these results by numerically simulating the full set of propagation equations.

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