Many-body effects and self-contained phase dynamics in an optically injected quantum-dot laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8432, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Lingnau, Benjamin ^a   Lüdge, Kathy ^a   Chow, Weng W ^b   Schöll, Eckehard ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND GAP ENERGY; COMPLEX DYNAMICS; DYNAMICAL SHIFTS; HARTREE-FOCK APPROXIMATIONS; INHOMOGENEOUS BROADENING; MANY-BODY COULOMB INTERACTION; MANY-BODY EFFECT; MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; OPERATION CONDITIONS; OPTICAL INJECTION; PHASE DYNAMICS; PHASEAMPLITUDE COUPLINGS (PAC); QD LASERS; RELAXATION OSCILLATION; SEMICLASSICAL APPROACHES; SINGLE-PARTICLE ENERGY; SPECTRAL WIDTHS;

COULOMB INTERACTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; QUANTUM DOT LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 84862302013     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.921991     Document Type: Conference Paper

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