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Polarization dependence of the two-photon Franz-Keldysh effect

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-05-20 v1 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

The effect of a constant electric field on two-photon absorption in a direct band gap semiconductor is calculated using an independent-particle theory. Two band structure models for GaAs are used: a two-band parabolic model and an eight-band "k dot p" model. Both predict a strong dependence of the two-photon electroabsorption spectrum on the polarization of the light with respect to the constant field. We attribute the polarization dependence to the strong effect of a constant field on intraband dynamics.

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@article{arxiv.1010.3920,
  title  = {Polarization dependence of the two-photon Franz-Keldysh effect},
  author = {J. K. Wahlstrand and S. T. Cundiff and J. E. Sipe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.3920},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure