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Two-photon absorption in silicon using real density matrix approach

Optics 2024-05-16 v2

Abstract

Two-photon absorption in indirect gap semiconductors is an frequently encountered, but not well-understood phenomenon. To address this, the Real Density Matrix Approach is applied to describe two-photon absorption in silicon through the excitonic response to the interacting fields. This approach produces an analytical expression for the dispersion of the two-photon absorption coefficient for indirect-gap materials, and can be used to explain trends in reported experimental data for bulk silicon both old and new with minimal fitting.

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@article{arxiv.2403.01019,
  title  = {Two-photon absorption in silicon using real density matrix approach},
  author = {David Ziemkiewicz and David Knez and Evan P. Garcia and Sylwia Zielińska-Raczyńska and Gerard Czajkowski and Alessandro Salandrino and Sergey S. Kharintsev and Aleksei I. Noskov and Eric O. Potma and Dmitry A. Fishman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.01019},
  year   = {2024}
}
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