Intersubband Transitions in Quantum Wells

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Detection

   1. Coupling of Radiation into Quantum Well Infrared Detectors by the Use of Reflection Gratings and Waveguide Structures

      • J. Y. Andersson, L. Lundqvist

      Pages 1-13

   2. Fundamental Limits in Quantum Well Intersubband Detection

      • Ilan Gravé, Amnon Yariv

      Pages 15-30

   3. Performance Trade Offs in the Quantum Well Infra-Red Detector

      • M. J. Kane, S. Millidge, M. T. Emeny, D. Lee, D. R. P. Guy, C. R. Whitehouse

      Pages 31-42

   4. Recent Progress in Quantum Well Infrared Photodetectors

      • B. F. Levine

      Pages 43-55

   5. Effects of the Upper State Position and the Number of Wells on the Performance of Intersubband Quantum Well Detectors

      • H. C. Liu, A. G. Steele, M. Buchanan, Z. R. Wasilewski

      Pages 57-63

   6. Intersubband Transition and Electron Transport in Potential-Inserted Quantum Well Structures and their Potentials for Infrared Photodetector

      • H. Sakaki, H. Sugawara, J. Motohisa, T. Noda

      Pages 65-72

   7. Photovoltaic Intersubband Photodetectors Using GaAs Quantum Wells Confined by AlAs Tunnel Barriers

      • Harald Schneider, Kuntheak Kheng, Frank Fuchs, John D. Ralston, Bernhard Dischler, Peter Koidl

      Pages 73-81

   8. Photon Drag IR-Detectors — the Doppler Effect in the Intersubband Resonance of 2-D Electron Systems

      • Hans Sigg

      Pages 83-91

   9. Application of Multiple-Quantum-Well Infrared Detectors to Present and Future Infrared Sensor Systems

      • R. L. Whitney, F. W. Adams, K. F. Cuff

      Pages 93-103

3. Low-Dimension Effects

   1. Phonon Scattering and Relaxation Properties of Lower Dimensional Electron Gases

      • Ulrich Bockelmann

      Pages 105-118

   2. Spectroscopy of Quantum-Dot Atoms

      • Detlef Heitmann, B. Meurer, T. Demel, P. Grambow, K. Ploog

      Pages 119-132

4. Nonlinear Optics

   1. Electron Transfer Infrared Modulator (ETIM)

      • V. Berger, N. Vodjdani, B. Vinter, D. Delacourt, E. Dupont, E. Costard et al.

      Pages 133-140

   2. Nonlinear Optics of Intersubband Transitions in AlInas/GaInAs Coupled Quantum Wells: Second Harmonic Generation and Resonant Stark Tuning of χ 2ω (2)

      • F. Capasso, C. Sirtori, D. Sivco, A. Y. Cho

      Pages 141-149

   3. Far-Infrared Emission and Absorption Spectroscopy of Quantum Wells and Superlattices

      • Manfred Helm

      Pages 151-161

   4. Room-Temperature Photo-Induced Intersubband Absorption in GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Wells

      • François H. Julien

      Pages 163-172

   5. Second-Harmonic Generation in Asymmetric AlGaAs Quantum Wells

      • Francois H. Julien

      Pages 173-182

   6. Model System for Optical Nonlinearities: Asymmetric Quantum Wells

      • E. Rosencher, Ph. Bois

      Pages 183-196

   7. Third Order Intersubband Kerr Effect in GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Wells

      • Amir Sa’ar, Nao Kuze, Jing Feng, I. Grave, Amnon Yariv

      Pages 197-207

   8. Optical Bistability Related to Intersubband Absorption in Asymmetric Quantum Wells

      • M. Seto, M. Helm

      Pages 209-217

This book contains the lectures delivered at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the "Intersubband Transistions in Quantum Wells" held in Cargese, France, between the t 9 h and the 14th of September 1991. The urge for this Workshop was justified by the impressive growth of work dealing with this subject during the last two or three years. Indeed, thanks to recent progresses of epitaxial growth techniques, such as Molecular Beam Epitaxy, it is now possible to realize semiconductor layers ( e.g. GaAs) with thicknesses controlled within one atomic layer, sandwiched between insulating layers (e.g. AlGaAs). When the semiconducting layer is very thin, i.e. less than 15 nm, the energy of the carriers corresponding to their motion perpendicular to these layers is quantized, forming subbands of allowed energies. Because of the low effective masses in these semiconducting materials, the oscillator strengths corresponding to intersubband transitions are extremely large and quantum optical effects become giant in the 5 - 20 ~ range: photoionization, optical nonlinearities, ... Moreover, a great theoretical surprise is that - thanks to the robustness of the effective mass theory - these quantum wells are a real life materialization of our old text book one-dimensional quantum well ideal. Complex physical phenomena may then be investigated on a simple model system.

• Absorption
• Energie
• Epitaxy
• Modulator
• light scattering
• nonlinear optics
• optics
• semiconductor
• spectroscopy

• Thomson-CSF, Central Research Laboratory, Orsay, France

  Emmanuel Rosencher, Børge Vinter

• AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA

  Barry Levine

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