Intrinsic gain switching in optically injected quantum dot laser lasing simultaneously from the ground and excited state

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2416-2423

  Olejniczak, Lukasz ^a,b   Panajotov, Krassimir ^a,c   Wieczorek, Sebastian ^d   Thienpont, Hugo ^a   Sciamanna, Marc ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b SUPELEC   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PULSE GENERATORS; QUANTUM DOT LASERS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EXCITED ENERGY STATE; EXTERNAL OPTICAL SIGNALS; GAIN SWITCHING; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; PICO-SECOND PULSE;

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 78149363303     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.002416     Document Type: Article

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