Abstract
When a direct-gap semiconductor is irradiated in the transparency region, the exciton line blue shifts. This so-called optical Stark effect of the exciton is due to a coupling between the exciton and all biexcitonic states (bound or unbound). More precisely we show that the exciton shift results only from interactions between excitons (Coulomb interaction and Pauli exclusion). At large detuning, Pauli exclusion dominates, and the excitonic shift is the same as the dressed-atom blue shift. In material having a bound biexcitonic molecule, the excitonic blue shift, observed at large detuning, becomes a red shift at small detuning close to the exciton-biexciton resonance.
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