Acta Sinica Quantum Optica
Influences of Electric Field on Electro-optic Effects in aSemi- Parabolic Quantum Well
Zhang Li
Abstract
?By using the compact density matrix approach, the electro-optic effect (EOE) in a semi-parabolic quantum well (QW) with an applied electric field has been theoretically investigated. Via variant of displacement harmonic oscillation, the exact electronic states in the semi-parabolic QW with an applied electric field are obtained. Numerical results on typical GaAs material reveal that electro-optic effect nearly linearly increases with the increasing of magnitude of the electric field, but it monotonously decreases with the increasing of confined potential frequency of the semi-parabolic QW. The EOE in our model is 102 times larger than that in the symmetric parabolic QW under the same electric field and the same frequency of parabolic confined potential, which is due to the self-asymmetry of the system and the electric field effect.