Linear and nonlinear optical properties of donors inside a CdSe/ZnTe core/shell nanodot: Role of size modulation

The optical absorption coefficient (OAC) and the refractive index (RI), related to a confined donor, were theoretically investigated by the mean of the density matrix formalism. In order to obtain the 1s - 1p donor transition energy a variational calculation, within the context of the effective-mass approach, was deployed. Our numerical results exhibit the possibility to modulate the electronic and optical properties of confined donors by tailoring the inner and outer radii of the core/shell heterodot. Further, we have obtained that the nanodot size shrinking leads, for very small values of core radius, to reduce the magnitude of the total absorption coefficient resonance peak. It was also obtained that the resonance peak position of the absorption coefficient is redshifted with increasing the core radius for a fixed shell thickness. The same situation occurs when reducing the thickness of the shell material for a fixed core size.