Emission properties and photon statistics of a single quantum dot laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 9909-9921

  Ritter, S ^a   Gartner, P ^a,b   Gies, C ^a   Jahnke, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS PHYSICS   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMB INTERACTIONS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ATOMIC SYSTEM; COHERENT EMISSION; DEPHASING; DIRECT SOLUTION; EMISSION PROPERTIES; EXCITED CARRIERS; MULTIPLE CARRIERS; NEUMANN EQUATION; PHOTON ANTIBUNCHING; PHOTON STATISTICS; PUMP RATE; QUANTUM DOT; SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES; SINGLE QUANTUM; SINGLE QUANTUM DOT; STRONG-COUPLING REGIME; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS; WEAK-COUPLING REGIME;

QUANTUM DOT LASERS;

QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHOTONS; QUANTUM DOTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 77952734304     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.009909     Document Type: Article

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