INTERSUBBAND OPTICAL-ABSORPTION OF HOLES IN QUANTUM-WELLS

The problem of hole energy spectrum and interlevel optical absorption in p-type quantum wells is considered theoretically. To obtain analytical results, terms in the Luttinger Hamiltonian containing in-plane momentum are treated as a perturbation. In this approximation energy spectrum, wave functions, hole statistics and interlevel optical matrix elements can be found for an arbitrary shape of quantum well. Finally, optical absorption spectra rare calculated for different interlevel transitions.