The Influence of Many Body and Electron Nonparabolicity Effects in
the Intersubband Optical Spectra of III-V Quantum Wells.
Mauro F. Pereira Jr.1
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H. Wenzel
2 (

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1Institut fuer Theoretische Physik,
Technische Universitaet Berlin,
Hardenbergstrasse 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany.
2Ferdinand-Braun-Institut fuer Hoechstfrequenztechnik Berlin,
Rudower Chaussee 5, D-12489 Berlin, Germany.
Novel optoelectronic devices whose operation is based upon
intersubband transitions open new possibilities in the infrared region.
Notably, the absorption, gain and refractive index spectra can be
tailored to specific applications with a high flexibility dependent almost
solely on the design of the structure and not on the actual material
parameters. In this paper, to the best of the authors knowledge,
the non parabolic electron subbands obtained from the
solutions of an 8X8 K.P Hamiltonian are used as input for
a many particle optical susceptibility solver capable of consistently
taking into account exchange and depolarization effects through numerical
inversion of the Nonequilibrium Keldysh
Green's Functions equations for the optical polarization.
Numerical results are presented for III-V quantum wells for different
design, temperature and excitation conditions, and the interplay between
many particle and non parabolic band structure effects is discussed.
Scattering beyond the exchange approximation and its influence in the
lineshape of the transitions is further discussed within a scheme that
allows the calculation of increasingly higher order Coulomb correlations
under equilibrium and nonequilibrium conditions.