Carrier correlation effects in a quantum-well semiconductor laser medium

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 136-141

  Chow, W W ^a   Knorr, A ^b   Hughes, S ^b   Girndt, A ^b   Koch, S W ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collision processes; Quantum theory; Quantum well lasers; Semiconductor device modeling; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; KINETIC THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES;

COULOMB CORRELATION EFFECTS; OPTICAL GAIN;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 0031109234     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.605645     Document Type: Article

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