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Charge Carrier Related Nonlinearities Bandgap Renormalization (Band Filling) Before Absorption After Absorption Conduction Band Egap E Egap kx Valence Band Absorption induced transition of an electron from valence to conduction band conserves kx,y! ky Egap> Egap Recombination time Kramers-Kronig n( ) c () 0 ( ) 2 2 d - frequency at which occurs - frequency at which n measured n 0.01 Egap Egap Exciton Bleaching Charge Carrier Nonlinearities Near Resonance - Most interesting case is GaAs, carrier lifetimes are nsec effective e (linewidths) meV classical dispersion (Haug & Koch) is of form [( Ee Eh ) 2 e2 ]1 . near resonance, as discussed before Ee – electron energy level to which electron excited in conduction band Eh – electron energy level in valence band from which electron excited by absorption x / Egap -Simplest case of a 2 band model: n NL R Ne k vac meh reduced electron - hole mass 2e 2 1 1 Ne 2 2 2 2 0 n0 meh E gap x x 1 N e conduction electron density R - absorption cross - section per electron N e,ss R 1 R d I (t ) N e state N e 1 n I n2,eff 1 R dt k vac k vac k vac steady Active Nonlinearities (with Gain) Optical or electrical pumping - - Stimulated emission Get BOTH an index change AND gain! Kramers-Krönig used to calculate index change n() from (). Ultrafast Nonlinearities Near Transparency Point At the transparency point, the losses are balanced by gain so that carrier generation by absorption is no longer the dominant nonlinear mechanism for index change. Of course one gets the Kerr effect + other ps and sub-ps phenomena which now dominate. “Transparency point” Gain 0 Loss Ne Evolution of carrier density in time “Spectral Hole Burning” “hole” in conduction band due to to stimulated emission at maximum gain determined by maximum product of the density of occupied states in conduction band and density of unoccupied states in valence band “Carrier Heating” (Temperature Relaxation) electron collisions return carrier distribution to a Fermi distribution at a lower electron temperature SHB – Spectral Hole Burning Experiments have confirmed these calculations! Semiconductor Response for Photon Energies Below the Bandgap As the photon frequency decreases away from the bandgap, the contribution to the electron population in the conduction band due to absorption decreases rapidly. Thus other mechanisms become important. For photon energies less than the band gap energy, a number of passive ultrafast nonlinear mechanisms contribute to n2 and 2. The theory for the Kerr effect is based on single valence and conduction bands with the electromagnetic field altering the energies of both the electrons and “holes”. There are four processes which contribute, namely the Kerr Effect, the Raman effect (RAM), the Linear Stark Effect (LSE) and the Quadratic (QSE) Stark Effect. Shown schematically below are the three most important ones. c () NL The theoretical approach is to calculate first the nonlinear n ( ) d 2 2 0 absorption NL () and then to use the Kramers-Kronig ( ) NL Relation to calculate the nonlinear index change n ( ) . - frequency at which occurs - frequency at which n calculated NL Kerr (1, 2 ) K i xi Egap Ep n01n02 Eg3 25 1 K 5 0 2 F2 ( x1, x2 ) e4 m0 c 2 , ( x1 x2 1)3 / 2 1 1 x1 x2 1 : F ( x1 , x2 ) 7 2 2 x1 x2 x1 x2 Here Ep (“Kane energy”) and the constant K are given in terms of the semiconductor’s properties. K=3100 cm GW-1 eV5/2 Ep cK K.K. n2 (1 , 2 ) G2 ( x1 , x2 ) 4 2 n01n02 E g 2 G2 ( x1 , x2 ) H ( x1 , x2 ) H ( x1 , x2 ) 5 3 2 9 2 2 9 2 3 3 1 3 2 3 / 2 1 x x x x x x x x x ( 1 x ) ( x2 x1 ) 2 [(1 x2 x1 )3 / 2 (1 x1 )3 / 2 ] 1 16 2 1 8 2 1 4 2 1 4 2 32 2 1 2 1 3 2 2 3 1 / 2 1 / 2 2 1/ 2 H ( x1, x2 ) x x [(1 x1 ) (1 x2 ) ] x2 x1 (1 x2 ) 6 4 4 16 2 1 2 2 x1 x2 3 3 3 1 2 1 / 2 2 2 1 / 2 3 1 / 2 2 2 3 / 2 x2 x (1 x ) x ( x2 x1 )(1 x1 ) x2 x (1 x1 ) ( x2 x1 )[1 (1 x2 ) ] 1 1 1 2 4 2 8 2 ( x1 x2 1)3 / 2 1 1 RAM x1 x2 1 : F ( x1, x2 ) 7 2 2 x1x2 x1 x2 2 G2 ( x1, x2 ) H ( x1, x2 ) H ( x1, x2 ) QSE x 2 2 2 2 x 1 x x 8 ( x 1 ) 1 1 1 2 1 x1 1 : F ( x1 , x2 ) 9 2 2 2 2 2 2 x1 x2 ( x1 1)1 / 2 x12 x22 x 2 x x 1 2 x1 0( x1 x2 ) 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 x1 x2 x1 x1 x2 1 G ( x1, x2 ) 2 2 2 29 x12 x22 2 x 2 (3x 2 x 2 ) 1 2 1 [(1 x )1 / 2 (1 x )1 / 2 ] 2 x2 (3 x1 x2 ) [(1 x )1 / 2 (1 x )1 / 2 ] 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 x ( x x ) x ( x x ) 2 1 2 1 1 2 4 4 1 / 2 (1 x1 ) 1 / 2 ] x22 [(1 x1 ) 3 (1 x ) 1 / 2 (1 x ) 1 / 2 (1 x ) 3 / 2 (1 x ) 3 / 2 1 1 1 1 1 x1 0( x1 x2 ) G ( x1, x2 ) 9 4 4 8 2 2 x1 x1 1 Kerr Quantum Confined Semiconductors When the translational degrees of freedom of electrons in both the valence and conduction bands are confined to distances of the order of the exciton Bohr radius aB, the oscillator strength is redistributed, the bandgap increases, the density of states e(E) changes and new bound states appear. As a result the nonlinear optical properties can be enhanced or reduced) in some spectral regions. Quantum Wells -Absorption edge moves to higher energies. -Multiple well-defined absorption peaks due to transitions between confined states -Enhanced absorption spectrum near band edge -Nonlinear absorption change (room temp.) measured versus intensity and converted to index change via Kramers-Kronig A factor of 3-4 enhancement!! Index change per excited electron Example of Multi-Quantum Well (MQW) Nonlinearities Quantum Dots Quantum dot effects become important when the crystallite size r0 aB (exciton Bohr radius). For example, the exciton Bohr radius for CdS aB = 3.2nm, CdSe aB = 5.6nm, CdTe aB = 7.4nm and GaAs aB = 12.5nm. Definitive measurements were performed on very well-characterized samples by Banfi. De Giorgio et al. in range aB r0 3 aB Measurements at1.2m (), 1.4m () and 1.58m () for CdTe Measurements at 0.79m (+) for CdS0.9Se0.1 Note the trend that Im{(3)} seems to fall when aB r0 ! Nonlinear Refraction and Absorption in Quantum Dots for aB r0 3 aB: II-VI Semiconductors Experimental QD test of the previously discussed off-resonance universal F2(x,x) and G2(x,x) functions for bulk semiconductors (discussed previously) by M. Sheik-Bahae, et. al., IEEE J. Quant. Electron. 30, 249 (1994). 2 10-20 Nanocrystals + 0.79m 2.2 m 1.4 m 1.58m 10-21 Bulk CdS 0.69m ▼ CdTe 12, 1.4, 1.58m 10-19 1.0 Egap / 1.5 2.0 Real{(3)} in units of 10-19m2V-2 (/0)4 Imag{(3)} in units of m2V-2 10-18 0 / Egap 0.5 0.6 0.7 -2 -4 To within the experimental uncertainty (factor of 2), no enhancements were found in II-VI semiconductors for the far off-resonance nonlinearities! 0.8