Abstract
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) |
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| 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 | |
| State | Published - Sep 2005 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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Pasenow, B., Reichelt, M., Stroucken, T., Meier, T., Koch, S. W., Zakharian, A. R., & Moloney, J. V. (2005). Enhanced light-matter interaction in semiconductor heterostructures embedded in one-dimensional photonic crystals. Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics, 22(9), 2039-2048. https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.22.002039