Optical Properties of Gaas/Alxga1-xas Superlattice Under E-Field for Quantum Cascade Laser Application

Abstract

Optical properties of GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs superlattice are studied dependent on quantum well thickness of gain region and doping density of injector layers underperformed electric field. Conduction band alignment of the superlattice is obtained by using effective mass approximation. 1d-Schrodinger formula is solved by using FDM. Intersubband transition energies, linear (nonlinear and total) absorption coefficients and linear (nonlinear and total) refractive index changes are plotted under applied electric field intensity. Intersubband transition energy of electron from second excited state to first excited state shows 147 meV. It is found that -45 kV/cm electric field intensity and 5 nm layer thickness of last quantum well of the gain region are the best values for studied structure. After that, linear absorption coefficient is investigated dependent on carrier number in the injector region under electric field. It is found that carrier number over 5 𝑥 1016 𝑐𝑚−2 can causes huge internal absorption of the radiative emission obtained in gain region due to increase in linear absorption coefficient by factor 10. As a conclusion, total absorption coefficient and total refractive index change are calculated for optimized parameters.

Keywords

• Superlattice
• Quantum Cascade Laser
• Optical properties
• Electric field
• GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs

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