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Nonlinear All-Optical Coherent Generation and Read-Out of Valleys in Atomically Thin Semiconductors.

Paul HerrmannSebastian KlimmerThomas LettauMohammad MonfaredIsabelle StaudeIoannis ParadisanosUlf PeschelGiancarlo Soavi
Published in: Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (2023)
With conventional electronics reaching performance and size boundaries, all-optical processes have emerged as ideal building blocks for high speed and low power consumption devices. A promising approach in this direction is provided by valleytronics in atomically thin semiconductors, where light-matter interaction allows to write, store, and read binary information into the two energetically degenerate but non-equivalent valleys. Here, nonlinear valleytronics in monolayer WSe 2 is investigated and show that an individual ultrashort pulse with a photon energy tuned to half of the optical band-gap can be used to simultaneously excite (by coherent optical Stark shift) and detect (by a rotation in the polarization of the emitted second harmonic) the valley population.
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