High-occupancy effects and stimulation phenomena in semiconductor microcavities

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1060-1071

  Skolnick, M S ^a   Tartakovskii, Alexander I ^a   Butté, Raphaël ^a   Whittaker, D M ^a   Stevenson, R Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lasing; Microcavities; Photonic structures; Stimulated emission

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; EXCITONS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; STIMULATED EMISSION; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; VECTORS;

PHOTONIC STRUCTURES; POLARITONS; SEMICONDUCTOR MICROCAVITIES; ULTRAFAST AMPLIFIERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES;

EID: 0036766018     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2002.804234     Document Type: Article

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