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Optical gains and interband transition energies for CdTe/ZnTe single quantum wells (SQWs) with different CdTe well widths were investigated. Photoluminescence (PL) spectra for CdTe/ZnTe SQWs at various temperatures were experimentally obtained, and the corresponding optical gains were calculated by using an interacting pair Green’s function and by using an energy space integrated function. The peak energies in the gain spectra that take the Coulomb interaction between the electron and the hole into account were in qualitatively reasonable agreement with those determined from the PL spectra.
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You, J.H., Woo, J.T., Lee, D.U. et al. Dependence of optical gain and interband transitions on the CdTe well width and temperature for CdTe/ZnTe single quantum wells. Opt Quant Electron 41, 559–565 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-010-9361-7
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