| Issue |
EPL
Volume 78, Number 2, April 2007
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 27005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/78/27005 | |
| Published online | 04 April 2007 | |
Optical second harmonic generation from Wannier excitons
1
Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, Aalborg University - DK-9220 Aalborg Øst, Denmark
2
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Aalborg University - DK-9220 Aalborg Øst, Denmark
Received:
13
November
2006
Accepted:
7
March
2007
Excitonic effects in the linear optical response of semiconductors are well known and the subject of countless experimental and theoretical studies. For the technologically important second-order nonlinear response, however, description of excitonic effects has proved to be difficult. In this work, a simplified three-band Wannier exciton model of cubic semiconductors is applied and a closed form expression for the complex second harmonic response function including broadening is derived. Our calculated spectra are found to be in excellent agreement with the measured response near the band edge. In addition, a very substantial enhancement of the nonlinear response is predicted for the transparency region.
PACS: 71.35.-y – Excitons and related phenomena / 78.20.Bh – Theory, models, and numerical simulation / 42.65.An – Optical susceptibility, hyperpolarizability
© Europhysics Letters Association, 2007
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