INFLUENCE OF PHONON CONFINEMENT ON OPTICALLY-DETECTED ELECTROPHONON RESONANCE LINEWIDTH IN PARABOLIC QUANTUM WELLS

Abstract

We investigate the influence of optical phonon confinement described by Huang-Zhu model on the optically-detected electro-phonon resonance (ODEPR) effect and ODEPR linewidth in parabolic quantum wells by using the operator projection. The result for the GaAs/AlAs parabolic quantum well shows that the ODEPR linewidths depend on the well’s confinement frequency. Besides, in thetwo cases of confined and bulk phonons, the linewidth increases with the increase of confinement frequency. Furthermore, in the large range of the confinement frequency, the influence of phonon confinement plays an important role and cannot be neglected in considering the ODEPR linewidth.