InGaAs quantum dots coupled to a reservoir of nonequilibrium free carriers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1121-1128

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

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Quantum dot (QD); Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; LASER THEORY; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

CARRIER RELAXATION; FEMTOSECOND OPTICAL PULSE; INGAAS QUANTUM DOTS; INJECTION CURRENTS; OPTICAL AMPLIFICATIONS; OPTICALLY INDUCED PERTURBATION; QUANTUM DOT (QD); RATE-EQUATION MODELS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 77956502085     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2021565     Document Type: Article

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