Abstract

Nonequilibrium carrier distributions in microcavity lasers are computed by solution of a quantum Boltzmann equation that includes carrier–carrier, carrier–phonon, and carrier–photon scattering as well as the pump process. A significant heating of the carrier plasma is observed as a consequence of the Pauli blocking of carrier injection and the removal of cold carriers through the process of stimulated recombination.

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Transient nonequilibrium and many-body effects in semiconductor microcavity lasers

F. Jahnke, K. Henneberger, W. Schäfer, and S. W. Koch
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Instabilities of a microcavity laser with a weak injected signal

D. Boggavarapu, R. Jin, J. Grantham, Y. Z. Hu, F. Brown de Colstoun, C. W. Lowry, G. Khitrova, S. W. Koch, M. Sargent, H. M. Gibbs, and W. Chow
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Self-consistent approach to thermal effects in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

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Amplification, absorption, and lossless propagation of femtosecond pulses in semiconductor amplifiers

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Improved coupled-mode theory for the dynamics of semiconductor laser arrays

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