Microscopic analysis of the nonlinear optical response of semiconductors: carrier dynamics in extremely intense Terahertz fields and many-body correlations [...] / Alexander Trautmann ; [Vorsitzender der Prüfungskommission: Prof. Dr. Thomas Zentgraf, Erstgutachter: Prof. Dr. Torsten Meier, Zweitgutachter: Prof. Dr. Stefan Schumacher, Mitglied der Promotionskomission: Dr. Falco Meier]. Paderborn, 2023
Inhalt
- Introduction
- Fundamentals
- Semiclassical description of the light-matter interaction in semiconductors
- The SBE in TDHF approximation
- Nonlinear optical signals
- Strongly nonresonant four-wave mixing in semiconductors
- Collision dynamics in solid-state high harmonic generation
- Semiclassical three-step recollision model in solids
- Orientation-dependent high harmonic generation
- Collision-assisted electron-hole recombination
- Control of high harmonic generation by two-color excitation
- Conclusions
- High harmonic generation with excitons
- Analysis of many-body Coulomb correlations in the excitonic nonlinear optical response
- Experimental setup to study the excitonic nonlinear response of type-I/II quantum wells
- Theoretical model and approach
- The SBE in the coherent (3)-limit
- One-dimensional tight-binding model
- Numerical results for type-I and type-II excitons
- Comparison with optical-pump optical-probe experiment
- Conclusions
- Summary
- Appendix
- Perturbative expansion with directional information
- Model parameters for the numerical solutions of the SBE in the coherent (3)-limit
- Bibliography