Optical methods used to optimize semiconductor laser structures with tunnel injection from quantum well to InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots

Optica Applicata

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 923-932

  Rudno Rudziński, Wojciech ^a   Ryczko, Krzysztof ^a   Sȩk, Grzegorz ^a   Syperek, Marcin ^a   Misiewicz, Jan ^a   Pavelescu, Emil Mihai ^b   Gilfert, Christian ^b   Reithmaier, Johann Peter ^b  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lasers; Optical properties; Quantum dots; Tunnel injection

Indexed keywords

CARRIER COLLECTION; CARRIER LOSS; CARRIER TRANSFER; EMISSION EFFICIENCIES; ENVELOPE FUNCTION FORMALISM; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; INGAAS QUANTUM DOTS; INGAAS QUANTUM WELLS; INGAAS/GAAS; MODULATION SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL METHODS; OPTICAL PHONONS; PHOTO-LUMINESCENCE EXCITATION; PHOTOREFLECTANCE; QUANTUM DOT; QUANTUM WELL; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SEMICONDUCTOR LASER STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE EVOLUTION; THIN BARRIERS; TUNNEL INJECTION;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; LASERS; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM DOT LASERS; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION); WATER INJECTION; WIND TUNNELS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 77449140111     PISSN: 00785466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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