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.