The influence of many body and electron nonparabolicity effects in the intersubband optical spectra of III–V quantum wells

M. F. Pereira, Jr Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, a, 1 and H. Wenzelb

a NMRC, University College, Lee Maltings, Prospect Row, Cork, Ireland
b Ferdinand-Braun-Institut fuer Hoechstfrequenztechnik, Berlin Rudower Chaussee 5, D-12489, Berlin, Germany

Available online 20 June 2003.


Abstract

In this paper, effective masses adjusted to the non parabolic electron subbands obtained from the solutions of an 8×8 KP Hamiltonian are used as input for a many particle optical susceptibility solver capable of consistently taking into account exchange and depolarisation effects through numerical inversion of the Keldysh Green's functions equations for the optical polarisation. Numerical results are presented for III–V quantum wells.

Author Keywords: Electron nonparabolicity; Many body effects; Intersubband transitions


Corresponding Author Contact InformationCorresponding author. Present address: TU Berlin Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Berlin 10623, Germany. Tel.: +49-30-314-24858; fax: +49-30-314-21130.

1 Research supported by SFI, Ireland.