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 language | English (US) |
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Article number | 151111 |
Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
Volume | 104 |
Issue number | 15 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 14 2014 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)