학술논문

Theory of anisotropy of two-photon absorption in zinc-blende semiconductors
Document Type
Conference
Source
Proceedings of 1994 Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications Nonlinear optics Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals, and Applications, 1994. NLO '94 IEEE. :230-232 1994
Subject
Photonics and Electrooptics
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Anisotropic magnetoresistance
Absorption
Optical polarization
Optical refraction
Tensile stress
Nonlinear optics
Crystallization
Gallium arsenide
Temperature dependence
Physics
Language
Abstract
Two-photon absorption (2PA) in semiconductors is of interest as it provides a nonlinear spectroscopic technique in addition to having important consequences for all-optical switching. Earlier calculations and measurements of 2PA in zinc-blende semiconductors have concentrated on the linearly polarised single-beam case, that is ignoring any polarisation dependence. This polarisation dependence can take two forms. First, there is a dependence on the type of optical polarisation employed that in the single beam case gives a difference between linearly and circularly polarised light. This variation can occur even for isotropic media. Second, there is a variation in the 2PA coefficient depending on the relative orientation of the optical polarisation with the crystalline axes which will be the main topic of this paper.ETX