Photon drag in a single quantum well embedded in an asymmetric Fabry–Perot microcavity: local-field effects

Abstract

On the basis of the Maxwell–Lorentz equations and the density matrix approach a theoretical analysis of the photon drag arising from intersubband transitions in quantum wells embedded in an asymmetric Fabry–Perot microcavity is presented. Comparing with the assumption of constant field across the quantum well numerical calculations show that the local-field effects play an important role on determining the photon drag current.