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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Coherent effects in semiconductor light emission

M. Kira, F. Jahnke, W. Hoyer, S. W. Koch

Published Mar 28, 2000• 0 citations
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Abstract

Coherent signatures in the semiconductor light emission are studied using a fully quantum mechanical theory for the system of photons and Coulomb interacting electron-hole pairs. The dominant light-matter correlations couple the semiconductor Bloch and luminescence equations yielding significant quantum corrections. A coherent excitation leads to squeezing of the emitted light as well as to entanglement between light and matter.

DOI
10.1117/12.381456

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