Spatially inhomogeneous optical gain in semiconductor photonic-crystal structures

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Reichelt, M ^a   Pasenow, B ^a   Meier, T ^a   Stroucken, T ^a   Koch, S W ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

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ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EXCITATION; EXCITON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHOTON; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTRUM;

EID: 15444362212     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.035346     Document Type: Article

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