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NONDEGENERATE PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION IN SUPERLATTICES AND THE LIMITS OF STRONG AND WEAK DISSIPATION

TIMO HYART

Department of Physical Sciences, University of Oulu, P.O.Box 3000, 90014 University of Oulu, Finland

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KIRILL N. ALEKSEEV

Department of Physics, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, United Kingdom

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Abstract

We develop a semiclassical theory of the nondegenerate parametric amplification in a single miniband of superlattice. We present the formulas describing absorption and gain of signal and idler fields in superlattice and analyze the limiting cases of strong and weak dissipation. We show how the well-known Manley-Rowe relations arise in the tight-binding lattice in the weak dissipation limit. Our results can be applied to an amplification of THz signals in semiconductor superlattices and a control of nonlinear transport of cold atoms in optical lattices.

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