Abstract
The ultrafast electron dynamics accompanying intersubband excitation in an InGaAs/AlAs/AlAsSb double quantum well has been investigated by femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy. The photoinduced changes in the refractive index that causes cross-phase modulation is dominated by a decreased number as well as increased temperature of the electrons in the lower conduction subbands. The change in the number of conduction electrons decays monotonically, whereas the change in the electron temperature exhibits a maximum at around 0.9 ps after the photoexcitation. Heating of the conduction electrons is caused by their excess energy after intersubband longitudinal-optical phonon scattering.
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