Excited-state-mediated capture of carriers into the ground state and the saturation of optical power in quantum-dot lasers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 2611-2613

  Jiang, Li ^a   Asryan, Levon V ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Quantum dot (QD) lasers; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

GROUND-STATE LASING; OPTICAL POWER; QUANTUM-DOT LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 33845728576     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.887353     Document Type: Article

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