Electron–phonon interaction influence on optical properties of parallelogram quantum wires

Abstract

In the present work, we have studied the effect of electron–phonon (e–p) interaction on optical properties of a GaAs quantum wire with parallelogram cross-section. For this goal, we have calculated refractive index changes and absorption coefficients by using compact-density-matrix approach and iterative method. The results show that the refractive index changes and absorption coefficients are obviously increased and the peak positions shift toward higher energies after considering the e–p interaction. We have also studied polaronic effect on electric dipole moment matrix elements and the energy levels for different quantum wire sizes. We have found that the line-width of absorption coefficients and refractive index changes is approximately constant after considering e–p interaction.