Studies of the Optical Properties of Solids. I. Two-Photon Electroabsorption. II. Electron-Hole Exchange Coupling at L-II, L-III Edges

摘要

In Chapter I, it is shown that direct-gap covalent semiconductors, such as GaAs, should exhibit electric-field induced Franz-Keldysh-like structures in their two-photon absorption spectra. These structures are evaluated employing exciton theory; the resulting lineshapes are shown to be proportional to the lineshapes for one-photon ''forbidden'' transitions, a property which greatly facilitates computations of the two-photon absorption. In chapter two, exchange mixes the L/sub II/ and L/sub III/ soft x-ray absorption edges of metallic Na, Mg, and Al, affecting the detailed absorption lineshape and the L/sub II//L/sub III/ intensity ratio. The Onodera theory of this mixing is generalized and the requirements of particle conservation and causality lead to significant modifications of the theoretical absorption lineshape. It is shown that under certain conditions an exchange-free lineshape can be extracted from experimental data for comparison with non-asymptotic theories of x-ray edges. (ERA citation 03:041170)