Nonlinear optical properties of GaAs pyramidal quantum dots: Effects of elliptically polarized radiation, impurity, and magnetic applied fields

The effects of the magnetic field and impurity position on the electronic states and nonlinear light absorption in a GaAs pyramidal quantum dot are investigated. The calculations were performed by using the total optical susceptibility for an incident light elliptically polarized along the pyramid growth axis. We proved that: (i) the optical susceptibility can be considerably modified by moving the impurity along the pyramid height; (ii) the enhancement of the magnetic field blueshifts the transition energies and increases the magnitude of the absorption coefficient; (iii) the light dispersion and absorption, as well as the group velocity can be controlled by changing the light intensity and its ellipticity parameter, without supplementary geometrical manipulations. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.