Temperature insensitivity of the threshold current density in exciton-dominated wide energy gap quantum wire lasers

Optical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Huang, Wenli ^a   Jain, Faquir C ^b  

^a UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

^b University of Connecticut   (United States)

Author keywords

excitons; quantum dot lasers; quantum wire lasers; threshold current density temperature dependence

Indexed keywords

CROSS SECTION; ELECTRON HOLE PAIRS; EXCITON DENSITY; EXCITON LOCALIZATION; EXCITON TRANSITIONS; EXCITON-BINDING ENERGY; FREE CARRIERS; INHOMOGENEOUS LINE; QUANTUM WIRE LASERS; SPECTRAL LINE WIDTH; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE INSENSITIVITY; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; THRESHOLD CURRENTS;

BINDING ENERGY; EXCITONS; NANOWIRES; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THRESHOLD CURRENT DENSITY; WIRE;

QUANTUM DOT LASERS;

EID: 81355153733     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3430578     Document Type: Article

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