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Calculation of Linear and Nonlinear Intersubband Optical Absorptions in Electric-Field-Biased Semiparabolic Quantum Wells

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By using the compact density matrix approach and iterative procedure, a detailed procedure for the calculation of the linear and nonlinear intersubband optical absorption coefficients is given in the electric-field-biased semi-parabolic quantum wells (QWs). The simple analytical formulas for the linear and nonlinear optical absorption coefficients in the systems are also deduced. Numerical result on typical GaAs materials shows that, the linear and nonlinear optical absorption coefficients sensitively depend on the applied electric field and the confined potential frequency of the semiparabolic QW systems as well as the incident optics beam intensity.

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Li, Z. Calculation of Linear and Nonlinear Intersubband Optical Absorptions in Electric-Field-Biased Semiparabolic Quantum Wells. Optical and Quantum Electronics 36, 665–673 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:OQEL.0000034740.29412.df

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