Acta Sinica Quantum Optica
Influence of Electron-phonon Interaction on the Optical Absorptions in Square Tangent Quantum Wells
Zhou Li-pin
Abstract
The optical absorptions coefficients with considering the electron-phonon interaction were theoretically studied in square tangent quantum wells.The wave functions and energy levels are described in square tangent quantum wells by perturbation theory when the polaron effects were considered,and analytic expression for the linear and the third-order nonlinear optical absorption coefficients was obtained by the compact density-matrix method and the iterative procedure.The numerical results for typical GaAs/AlGaAs material showed that the electron-phonon interaction had great influence on the linear,nonlinear and total optical absorption,meanwhile the absorption saturation phenomenon was more obvious than the one without considering the polaron effects.Moreover,the changes of the total optical absorptions increased with the well width b decreasing or the well depth V0 increasing when the electron-phonon interaction was considered.