Nonlinear Absorption and Photoluminescence of CdTe Nanotetrapods with CdSe Tips under Nonresonance Excitation of Excitons

The nonlinear absorption and photoluminescence of CdTe/CdSe nanotetrapod colloids have been studied by the pump–probe method for the case of single-photon nonresonance excitation of excitons. A competition between the short-wave and long-wave shifts of the peak of photoluminescence associated with an indirect electron–hole transition, which is observed with increasing excitation radiation intensity, has been found and explained. The former shift is associated with an increase in the one-dimensional exciton radius after the exciton state occupation, and the latter shift may be attributed to the charge-induced Stark effect and local heating of nanotetrapods as a result of electron–phonon interaction at nonresonance excitation of the system.