Title :
Observation of stimulated emission in short-period quasi-indirect type-II GaAs/AlAs superlattices
Author :
Mu, Xiaodong ; Ding, Yujie J. ; Wang, Zhiming ; Salamo, Gregory J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA, USA
Abstract :
We have demonstrated that the type-II GaAs/AlAs superlattices can be used to greatly increase the recombination times and to achieve stimulated emission in these structures with greatly-reduced gain coefficients for applications as optical amplifiers.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; gallium arsenide; photoluminescence; semiconductor superlattices; stimulated emission; visible spectra; GaAs-AlAs; gain coefficients; optical amplifiers; recombination times; short-period quasiindirect type-II GaAs/AlAs superlattices; stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
