Coulomb damped relaxation oscillations in semiconductor quantum dot lasers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1242-1248

  Malić, Ermin ^b   Bormann, Moritz J P ^b   Hövel, Philipp ^b   Kuntz, Matthias ^b   Bimberg, Dieter ^a,b   Knorr, Andreas ^b   Schöll, Eckehard ^b  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coulomb scattering rates; Quantum dot (QD) lasers; Relaxation oscillations

Indexed keywords

COULOMB SCATTERING; COULOMB SCATTERING RATES; ELECTRICAL CURRENT PULSES; QUANTUM DOT (QD) LASERS;

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; HOLE CONCENTRATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; RELAXATION OSCILLATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 35348996110     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.905148     Document Type: Conference Paper

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