INTERBAND-TRANSITIONS IN INASXP1-X/INP STRAINED MULTIPLE QUANTUM-WELLS

We report the optical study of the interband transitions in InAsxP1-x/InP strained-layer multiple quantum wells grown by gas-source molecular beam epitaxy. Low-temperature photoluminescence, photoluminescence excitation, and room temperature photomodulated transmission measurements were performed to investigate optical interband transitions. In addition to transitions associated with the heavy-hole and the light-hole bands, a transition involved with the spin-orbit split-off band was observed. We also observed spectral linewidth broadening due to compositional inhomogeneity and layer-thickness fluctuations from the sample using short-period superlattices as the well materials. Calculations based on the envelope-function approximation and phenomenological deformation potential theory, including both band nonparabolicity and strain-induced valence-band mixing, were compared with experimental data to identify the optical transitions between quantized states in the wells. We found good agreement between theory and experiment.