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International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD)

Model for a semiconductor quantum-dot nanolaser

Chi‐Wai Chow, F. Jahnke, Christopher Gies

Published Sep 1, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

A quantum-electrodynamics model is developed for a nanolaser with a semiconductor quantum-dot gain region. Intensity, coherence time and photon autocorrelation function are calculated, especially during transition from below to above lasing threshold.
DOI
10.1109/nusod.2014.6935328

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