The impact of energy band diagram and inhomogeneous broadening on the optical differential gain in nanostructure lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 26-35

  Dery, Hanan ^a,b   Eisenstein, Gadi ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Modulation; Nonhomogeneous media; Quantum dots (QDs); Quantum wires (QWRs); Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; LIGHT MODULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES;

NANOSTRUCTURE LASERS; NONHOMOGENOUS MEDIA; OPTICAL DIFFERENTIAL GAIN;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 12844251371     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.837953     Document Type: Article

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