Quantum theory of spontaneous emission and coherent effects in semiconductor microstructures

M. Kira; F. Jahnke; W. Hoyer; S. W. Koch

doi:10.1016/S0079-6727(99)00008-7

Quantum theory of spontaneous emission and coherent effects in semiconductor microstructures

M. Kira, F. Jahnke, W. Hoyer, S. W. Koch

Optical Sciences, College of

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Abstract

A fully quantum-mechanical theory for the interaction of light and electron-hole excitations in semiconductor quantum-well systems is developed. The resulting many-body hierarchy for the correlation functions is truncated using a dynamical decoupling scheme leading to coupled semiconductor luminescence and Bloch equations. For incoherent excitation conditions, the theory is used to describe nonlinear excitonic emission properties of single-quantum wells, optically coupled multiple quantum-well systems, and quantum wells in a microcavity. Resonant coherent optical excitation leads to a direct coupling between the induced coherent polarization and photoluminescence. The resulting quantum corrections to the semiclassical semiconductor Bloch equations and the coherent contributions to the semiconductor luminescence equations are discussed. The secondary emission in directions deviating from the coherent excitation direction after femtosecond-pulse excitation is studied. Coherent control and quadrature squeezing for the light emission are analyzed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	189-279
Number of pages	91
Journal	Progress in Quantum Electronics
Volume	23
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0079-6727(99)00008-7
State	Published - Nov 1999

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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