(1) The Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, Ministry of Education, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300457, China;(2) The Key Laboratory for Semiconductor Materials Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100083, China
Abstract:
The room-temperature third order nonlinearities in GaAs/AlGaAs multiple quantum wells have been studied using reflection Z-scan
technique. Band-filling effect is considered to be the major nonlinear mechanism of the nonlinear absorption. A model to calculate
the absorption coefficient of quantum wells in the nonlinear regime is presented.