1. Intense laser field effects on the intersubband optical absorption and refractive index change in the δ-doped GaAs quantum wells
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Fatih Ungan, E. Kasapoglu, Serpil Sakiroglu, U. Yesilgul, Hüseyin Sari, and Ismail Sokmen
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Physics ,Field (physics) ,Physics::Optics ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Self-focusing ,02 engineering and technology ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Laser ,01 natural sciences ,law.invention ,Schrödinger equation ,symbols.namesake ,law ,Excited state ,Quantum mechanics ,0103 physical sciences ,symbols ,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry ,Atomic physics ,010306 general physics ,0210 nano-technology ,Absorption (electromagnetic radiation) ,Refractive index ,Quantum well - Abstract
In this paper, we have investigated the effects of the non-resonant intense laser field on the electronic and optical properties such as linear, nonlinear and the total optical absorption coefficient and refractive index change for transitions between two lower-lying electronic states in the GaAs-based δ -doped quantum well. Within the effective mass approximation, we calculated the eigenvalues and corresponding eigenfunctions as a function of the intense laser parameter by solving the Schrodinger equation in the laser-dressed confinement potential. The analytical expressions of the linear and third-order non-linear optical absorption coefficients and refractive index changes are obtained by using the compact-density matrix formalism. The obtained results show that the separation between ground and first excited energy levels in the δ -doped quantum well decreases in energy by the increase of the laser field intensity and this effect leads to an optical red-shift in the intersubband transitions. This behavior gives us a new degree of freedom in tunability of different device applications based on the optical transitions.
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- 2017
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