Basic exciton parameters, such as the energy of exciton transition and the radiative and nonradiative broadenings, are experimentally studied by means of reflectance spectroscopy for a heterostructure with a 14-nm GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well. Particular attention is paid to the nonradiative broadening which is sensitive to densities of free carriers and long-lived nonradiative excitons. A sublinear increase of the broadening of the heavy-hole and light-hole exciton resonances is observed when the light-hole exciton resonance is excited with increasing power. A simple model is developed, which allows one to well reproduce the observed dependence. Keywords: exciton, quantum well, nonradiative broadening.
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