The effects of intense laser on nonlinear properties of shallow donor impurities in quantum dots with the Woods–Saxon potential

A theoretical study of the effects of intense laser fields on the nonlinear properties of donor impurities in a quantum dot with Woods–Saxon potential is performed within the matrix diagonalization method with the use of the effective mass approximation. The great advantage of our methodology is that it enables confinement regimes by varying two parameters in the model potential. The intense laser effects are included through the Floquet method, by modifying the confining potential associated to the heterostructure. Based on the computed energies and wave functions, the optical absorption coefficients and the refractive index between the ground state (L=0) and the first excited state (L=1) have been examined. Several configurations of the barrier height, the dot radius, the barrier slope of the confinement potential and the incident intense laser radiation have been considered. The outcome of the calculation suggests that all the factors mentioned above can influence the nonlinear optical properties strongly.