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Semiconductor physics
Increase in the efficiency of a tandem of semiconductor laser – optical amplifier based on self-organizing quantum dots
A. E. Zhukova, N. V. Kryzhanovskayaa, È. I. Moiseeva, A. S. Dragunovaa, A. M. Nadtochiya, M. V. Maksimovab, N. Yu. Gordeevc a National Research University "Higher School of Economics", St. Petersburg Branch
b Alferov Federal State Budgetary Institution of Higher Education and Science Saint Petersburg National Research Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
c Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg
Abstract:
The rate equations are used to analyze the characteristics of a tandem consisting of a laser diode and a semiconductor optical amplifier made of a single heterostructure with quantum dots. The optimal value of the current distribution coefficient the amplifier and the laser, as well as the optimal resonator length that provides the highest output power of the tandem were determined. It is shown that the use of the tandem allows, at the same total consumed current, to significantly (more than 4 times for 1 A) increase the power emitted through the ground-state optical transition in comparison with that achievable with a laser diode solely being limited by the onset of lasing through an excited-state optical transition.
Keywords:
semiconductor optical amplifier, diode laser, quantum dots, two-state lasing, rate equations.
Received: 10.07.2021 Revised: 02.08.2021 Accepted: 02.08.2021
Citation:
A. E. Zhukov, N. V. Kryzhanovskaya, È. I. Moiseev, A. S. Dragunova, A. M. Nadtochiy, M. V. Maksimov, N. Yu. Gordeev, “Increase in the efficiency of a tandem of semiconductor laser – optical amplifier based on self-organizing quantum dots”, Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 55:12 (2021), 1223–1228
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