Microscopic analysis of non-equilibrium dynamics in the semiconductor-laser gain medium

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Abstract

Fully microscopic many-body calculations are used to analyze the carrier dynamics in situations where a strong sub-picosecond pulse interacts with an inverted semiconductor quantum well. Electron-electron and electron-phonon scatterings are calculated on a second Born-Markov level. Intra-subband scatterings on a scale of tens of femtoseconds are shown to quickly re-fill the kinetic holes created in the carrier distributions during the pulse amplification. Even for sub-100 fs pulses, this significantly influences the pulse amplification as well as its spectral dependence. Interband scatterings on a few picosecond timescale limit the possibly achievable repetition rate in pulsed semiconductor lasers.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number151111
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume104
Issue number15
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 14 2014

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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