Nonlinear intersubband optical absorption of asymmetric semiconductor quantum wells pumped by terahertz and infrared fields

Hai-Yan Zhu; Tong-Yi Zhang; Wei Zhao

doi:10.1117/12.835726

4 August 2009 Nonlinear intersubband optical absorption of asymmetric semiconductor quantum wells pumped by terahertz and infrared fields

Hai-Yan Zhu, Tong-Yi Zhang, Wei Zhao

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Proceedings Volume 7385, International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging 2009: Terahertz and High Energy Radiation Detection Technologies and Applications; 73851Z (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.835726
Event: International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging 2009, 2009, Beijing, China

Abstract

We investigate the conduction intersubband linear response of a n-type quantum well driven by one or two infrared optical fields with arbitrary strengths. The fields couple the third subband to the second energy subband and the ground subband, forming a Λ system. We investigate the dependences of the absorption spectrum on the pump field strengths. The results for the equal Rabi frequencies can be understood in terms of quantum coherence processes of the intersubband transitions, such as coherent population trapping, and electromagnetically induced transparency. The effects of different Rabi frequencies on the absorption spectrum due to fields are also discussed.

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Hai-Yan Zhu, Tong-Yi Zhang, and Wei Zhao "Nonlinear intersubband optical absorption of asymmetric semiconductor quantum wells pumped by terahertz and infrared fields", Proc. SPIE 7385, International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging 2009: Terahertz and High Energy Radiation Detection Technologies and Applications, 73851Z (4 August 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.835726

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