Complete ground state gain recovery after ultrashort double pulses in quantum dot based semiconductor optical amplifier

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Dommers, Sabine ^a   Temnov, Vasily V ^a   Woggon, Ulrike ^a   Gomis, Jordi ^b   Martinez Pastor, Juan ^b   Laemmlin, Matthias ^c   Bimberg, Dieter ^c  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); GAIN CONTROL; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EXCITED STATE; GAIN RECOVERY; PUMP-PROBE SPECTROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (SOA);

GROUND STATE;

EID: 33846426790     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2431789     Document Type: Article

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