STRONG INSTANTANEOUS CONTRIBUTION IN FEMTOSECOND DEGENERATE 4-WAVE-MIXING FROM 350-MU-M INP DUE TO VIRTUAL EXCITATION

We have observed strong four-wave mixing (FWM) signals from the third up to the seventh order for a 350 mu m undoped InP at 10 K with an exc itation at far below the band gap. The third order spectrally resolved FWM signal shifts continuously to blue as time delay moves away from positive to negative. The peak intensities of the third and fifth orde r time-integrated FWM signals decrease rapidly as the detuning increas es, as (detuning)(-2) and (detuning)(-6), respectively. The FWM signal at far below the band gap is attributable to the strong instantaneous contribution of the excitation pulse. (C) 1996 American Institute of Physics.