Effects of hydrostatic pressure on the nonlinear optical properties of a donor impurity in a GaAs quantum ring

Abstract

The effects of hydrostatic pressure, size quantization and impurity position on the binding energies of a hydrogenic-like donor impurity in a two-dimensional GaAs quantum ring and together with the linear and nonlinear intraband optical absorption and the relative refractive index changes are studied using the variational method and effective-mass approximation. The binding energies of 1s and 2s states are examined as functions of the structure (inner and outer radii), impurity position and hydrostatic pressure. We have also investigated the dependencies of the linear, nonlinear, and total optical absorption coefficients and relative index changes as a function of incident photon energy for different geometric configurations, hydrostatic pressure and impurity position. It is found that the variation of distinct sizes of the structure and impurity position leads to either a redshift and/or a blueshift of the resonant peaks of the intraband optical absorption and relative refractive index change spectrum. In addition we have found that the application of a hydrostatic pressure leads to a blueshift.