Polarization of ultrashort optical pulses in semiconductor superlattice in a presence of magnetic field

Abstract

The system of equations describing an ultrashort optical pulses propagation in semiconductor superlattice with applied magnetic field was obtained based on Boltzmann equation in the relaxation-time approximation for the single electron distribution function and coupled Maxwell equations for the electromagnetic field. It was demonstrated that an original linear-polarized optical pulse initiates an orthogonal polarization in the field of a sample. The propagation dynamics of initiated and initial pulses in the sample was investigated. The effects of the lattice geometry have been elicited.