Numéro
Le Journal de Physique IV
Volume 03, Numéro C5, Octobre 1993
Third International Conference on Optics of Excitons in Confined
Page(s) C5-131 - C5-138
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/jp4:1993523
Third International Conference on Optics of Excitons in Confined

Le Journal de Physique IV 03 (1993) C5-131-C5-138

DOI: 10.1051/jp4:1993523

Two-photon absorption in low-dimensional heterostructures

R. CINGOLANI1, M. LEPORE2, R. TOMMASI2, I.M. CATALANO2, H. LAGE3, D. HEITMANN3, 4 and K. PLOOG3, 5

1  Dipartimento Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Lecce, Via Arnesano, 73100 Lecce, Italy
2  Unità GNEQP Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bari, Via Amendola 173, 70110 Bari, Italy
3  Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperfoschung, Heisenbergstrasse 1, 7000 Stuttgart 80, Germany
4  Institut fuer Agewandte Physik, Jungenstr. 11, 2000 Hamburg, Germany
5  Paul Drude Institut fuer Festkoerperelektronik,1086 Berlin, Germany


Abstract
We briefly review the physics of two-photon absorption processes in low-dimensional systems. The anisotropic selection rules of the multiphoton absorption in quantum wells and quantum wires are exploited to study the 2p-exciton states and the otherwise forbidden transitions among quantized subbands of different quantum numbers.



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