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Asia Communications and Photonics Conference

First Principle Study of Nanolasers: Photon Statistics and Laser Threshold

Chi‐Wai Chow, F. Jahnke, Christopher Gies

Published Jan 1, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

A semiconductor quantum-optical theory is developed and applied to address questions involving thresholdless lasing and increasing single-photon production rate. Excitation dependences of intensity, coherence time, photon autocorrelation function and carrier spectral hole burning are described.
DOI
10.1364/acpc.2014.af2a.3

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