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 - 2005 |
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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, 2005, p. 2039-2048.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - Enhanced light-matter interaction in semiconductor heterostructures embedded in one-dimensional photonic crystals
AU - Pasenow, Bernhard
AU - Reichelt, Matthias
AU - Stroucken, Tineke
AU - Meier, Torsten
AU - Koch, Stephan W
AU - Zakharian, Aramis R.
AU - Moloney, Jerome V
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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JO - Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
JF - Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
SN - 0740-3224
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