Subpicosecond coherent emission due to excitons in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum
wells has been investigated by a new spectroscopic technique utilizin
g a two-pulse sequence of femtosecond duration laser pulses. By measur
ing the two-pulse interferograms of reflected pulses at the Brewster a
ngle of incidence and that of a resonant Rayleigh scattering sequence,
the polarization decay time can be obtained.