Optical gain of a quantum-well laser with non-Markovian relaxation and many-body effects

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 960-965

  Ahn, Doyeol ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a LG Electronics Inc   (South Korea)

^b University of Seoul   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONS; ENERGY GAP; FERMI LEVEL; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; TRANSPARENCY;

COULOMB INTERACTION; HARTREE-FOCK APPROXIMATION; INTRABAND FREQUENCY FLUCTUATIONS; LUTTINGER-KOHN MODEL; MULTIBAND EFFECTIVE MASS THEORY; NON MARKOVIAN RELAXATION; OPTICAL GAIN; SEMICONDUCTOR BLOCH EQUATIONS; VALENCE BAND MIXING;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 0030165934     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.502372     Document Type: Article

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