Two-photon absorption in silicon using real density matrix approach

Abstract

Two-photon absorption in indirect gap semiconductors is an frequently encountered, but not well-understood phenomenon. To address this, the Real Density Matrix Approach is applied to describe two-photon absorption in silicon through the excitonic response to the interacting fields. This approach produces an analytical expression for the dispersion of the two-photon absorption coefficient for indirect-gap materials, and can be used to explain trends in reported experimental data for bulk silicon both old and new with minimal fitting.