Enhanced light-matter interaction in semiconductor heterostructures embedded in one-dimensional photonic crystals

Bernhard Pasenow; Matthias Reichelt; Tineke Stroucken; Torsten Meier; Stephan W. Koch; Aramis R. Zakharian; Jerome V. Moloney

doi:10.1364/JOSAB.22.002039

Enhanced light-matter interaction in semiconductor heterostructures embedded in one-dimensional photonic crystals

Bernhard Pasenow, Matthias Reichelt, Tineke Stroucken, Torsten Meier, Stephan W. Koch, Aramis R. Zakharian, Jerome V. Moloney

Optical Sciences, College of

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The optical properties of semiconductor quantum wells embedded in one-dimensional photonic crystal structures are analyzed by a self-consistent solution of Maxwell's equations and a microscopic many-body theory of the material excitations. For a field mode spectrally below the photonic band edge it is shown that the optical absorption and gain are enhanced, exceeding by more than 1 order of magnitude the values of a homogeneous medium. For the photonic crystal structure inside a microcavity the gain increases superlinearly with the number of wells and for more than five wells exceeds the gain of a corresponding vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2039-2048
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
Volume	22
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.22.002039
State	Published - Sep 2005

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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Enhanced light-matter interaction in semiconductor heterostructures embedded in one-dimensional photonic crystals. / Pasenow, Bernhard; Reichelt, Matthias; Stroucken, Tineke; Meier, Torsten; Koch, Stephan W.; Zakharian, Aramis R.; Moloney, Jerome V.

In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics, Vol. 22, No. 9, 09.2005, p. 2039-2048.

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