Optimization of resonant intersubband nonlinear optical susceptibility in semiconductor quantum wells: The coordinate transform approach

V. Milanović, Z. Ikonić, and D. Indjin
Phys. Rev. B 53, 10887 – Published 15 April 1996
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Abstract

A systematic procedure is proposed for the optimal design of quantum-well structures, which provide maximal resonant second-order susceptibility. The method is based on the coordinate transform. Starting from the linear harmonic-oscillator Hamiltonian, itself lacking any nonlinear susceptibility, it generates a family of asymmetric isospectral Hamiltonians in parametrized form. Their parameters are then varied to maximize the product of matrix elements relevant for nonlinear susceptibility. Practical realization of quantum-well structures having such optimized Hamiltonians is also discussed. Values of nonlinear susceptibility obtained by this method are about equal to the best values reported in current literature. © 1996 The American Physical Society.

  • Received 28 November 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.53.10887

©1996 American Physical Society

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V. Milanović, Z. Ikonić, and D. Indjin

  • Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Bulevar Revolucije 73, 11000 Belgrade, Yugoslavia

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Vol. 53, Iss. 16 — 15 April 1996

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