Longitudinal spatial hole burning in a quantum-dot laser

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1151-1160

  Asryan, Levon V ^a,b   Suris, Robert A ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; CHARGE CARRIERS; DENSITY (OPTICAL); OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CAVITY LENGTH; MULTIMODE GENERATION; QUANTUM DOT LASER; SIZE DISPERSION; SPATIAL HOLE BURNING; SURFACE DENSITY;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 0034291034     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.880655     Document Type: Article

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