Optical control of magnetic property of a magnetic polaron (MP) in Mn-doped bulk GaAs and GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots (QDs) have been studied. We have developed basis optimization technique for the method of linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAOs), which significantly improve the accuracy of the conventional LCAO calculation. We have demonstrated that a monochromatic, linearly polarized, intense pulsed laser field induces a collapse of the MP and an ionization of Mn-acceptor in Mn-doped GaAs materials due to a dichotomy of hole wave function. We find this optical tunability of MP stability can be adjusted by confinement introduced in GaAs QDs. (C) 2013 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.