Off-centre impurity-related nonlinear optical absorption, second and third harmonic generation in a two-dimensional quantum ring under magnetic field

Abstract

The effects of an off-centre donor impurity on the non-linear optical absorption, second and third harmonic generation in a GaAs two-dimensional disc-shaped quantum ring under magnetic field are investigated within the compact density-matrix formalism and the effective mass approximation. The results reveal that: (i) the absorption spectra extend on larger energy intervals at the increment of the magnetic field; (ii) the possibility of generating second harmonic response from the system is demonstrated for an impurity placed on the repulsive part of the confining potential; (iii) both second harmonic and third harmonic coefficients are one order of magnitude larger for an impurity placed on the repulsive part of the potential and are blue-shifted by the increment of the magnetic field regardless the impurity position.

Keywords:

• Quantum ring
• donor impurity
• non-linear optical absorption
• second harmonic generation
• third harmonic generation
• magnetic field
• semiconductors