Multidirectional Observation of Photoluminescence Polarization Anisotropy in Closely Stacked InAs/GaAs Quantum Dots

We studied polarization anisotropy observed in photoluminescence from closely stacked InAs/GaAs quantum dots (QDs). As the number of stacked layers was increased, the anisotropy in the (001) plane became drastically larger and the [001]-polarization component became larger than the [110] component when observed from the [110] direction. However, the polarization intensity of the [110] component remained stronger than that of the [001] component in the stacked QDs. Such varied polarization anisotropies depending on the observation direction have been found to result from the valence-band mixing in the vertically coupled electronic states.