Nondegenerate four-wave mixing in a semiconductor microcavity

We report the observation of highly nondegenerate four-wave mixing from a semiconductor microcavity. The phase mismatch originating from the unique relationship between a beam incidence angle and its cavity resonance frequency was minimized by using a new method where both of pump and probe beams an obliquely incident. External efficiency of 1.6% was measured at 10 K for 1.5 THz frequency conversion of probe pulses by using 1 ps pump pulses of 55 pJ incident pulse energy. (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics.