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Combined effects of electric, magnetic, and intense terahertz laser fields on the nonlinear optical properties in GaAs/GaAlAs quantum well with exponentially confinement potential

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We are presenting a theoretical investigation on the effects of applied electric, magnetic, and non-resonant intense laser field on the coefficients of intersubband linear, third-order nonlinear, and total optical absorption and of relative refractive index change in GaAs/GaAlAs quantum wells with exponentially confining potential. It also includes the study of the impact of adjustable potential parameters. The energy states of conduction band electrons in the structure are calculated by using the effective mass and envelope function approximations. With regard to the optical response, it is found that with the strengthening of magnetic field, the resonant peak positions shift to lower energies and their magnitudes decrease. Increasing in the values of adjustable potential parameters as well as of the static electric and laser intensities causes the peak positions to shift toward higher energies and their magnitudes to augment. These results show that the optical properties of the system can be adjusted according to the purpose, by changing the magnitude of applied external fields and structure parameters.

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MEMR acknowledges Mexican Conacyt for support through Grant A1-S-8218.

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  1. Department of Nanotechnology Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, 58140, Turkey

    I. Altuntas

  2. Nanomaterials Technology Unit, Basic and Applied Scientific Research Center (BASRC), College of Science of Dammam, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam, 31441, Saudi Arabia

    H. Dakhlaoui

  3. Department of Physics, College of Sciences for Girls, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia

    H. Dakhlaoui

  4. Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Ave. Universidad 1001, CP 62209, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

    M. E. Mora-Ramos

  5. Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, 58140, Turkey

    F. Ungan

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Altuntas, I., Dakhlaoui, H., Mora-Ramos, M.E. et al. Combined effects of electric, magnetic, and intense terahertz laser fields on the nonlinear optical properties in GaAs/GaAlAs quantum well with exponentially confinement potential. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 136, 1174 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-02180-7

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