Severe gain suppression due to dynamic carrier heating in quantum well lasers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 808-810

  Grupen, Matt ^a   Hess, Karl ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRONS; LASER ABLATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MODULATION; PHONONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SIGNAL THEORY; TEMPERATURE;

CARRIER DYNAMICS; CARRIER TEMPERATURE; DYNAMIC CARRIER HEATING; QUANTUM WELL LASER SIMULATOR; RATE EQUATIONS; TUNNELING INJECTION;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 0031078497     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.118229     Document Type: Article

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