Non-perturbative four-wave mixing in InSb with intense off-resonant multi-THz pulses

Abstract

High-field multi-THz pulses are employed to analyze the coherent nonlinear response of the narrow-gap semiconductor InSb which is driven off-resonantly. Field-resolved four-wave mixing signals manifest the onset of a non-perturbative regime of Rabi flopping at external amplitudes above 5 MV/cm per pulse. Simulations based on a two-level quantum system confirm these experimental results. © Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2013.