The influence of electron-hole-scattering on the gain spectra of highly excited semiconductors

Solid State Communications

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 555-559

  Hughes, S ^a   Knorr, A ^a   Koch, S W ^a   Binder, R ^b   Indik, R ^c   Moloney, J V ^c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

A. semiconductors; B. carrier carrier interaction; B. optical properties

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BAND STRUCTURE; CALCULATIONS; CHARGE CARRIERS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTROSCOPY;

CARRIER-CARRIER INTERACTION; ELECTRON HOLE SCATTERING; GAIN SPECTRA; LINESHAPE; OPTICAL DEPHASING;

SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

EID: 0030291180     PISSN: 00381098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0038-1098(96)00494-2     Document Type: Article

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10. Note, that polarisation scattering [3] which turns out to be important for the situation of nonlinear excitation such as four-wave-mixing (FWM) close to the band edge can be neglected in our case, because we treat the situation of linear optics where products of polarisations, such as the polarisation scattering are higher-order terms. In this paper we are interested only in the principle effects of the interplay of non-diagonal- and diagonal-scattering, therefore exchange contributions of the Coulomb potential to the lineshape are neglected for numerical convinience.