Light pulse propagation and charge carrier scattering in semiconductor amplifiers
- Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States). Optical Sciences Center
The carrier dynamics in inverted semiconductors (optical amplifiers) and light pulse propagations in optical amplifiers have been studied extensively both theoretically and experimentally. Light induced carrier heating processes, which are caused, for example, by two-photon absorption and free carrier absorption, have been studied mainly on the basis of phenomenological models. The full microscopic theory of these processes and their influence on light pulse propagation is still an unsolved problem. Here, the authors present theoretical results on light pulse propagation in inverted semiconductors and semiconductor laser diodes. The theory is based on the semiconductor Maxwell Bloch equations and includes incoherent phenomena due to charge-carrier scattering based on the solution of the appropriate Boltzman equation.
- OSTI ID:
- 64737
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940142--; ISBN 0-8194-1441-7
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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