| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/K60565/01 |
| Title: |
MICROSCOPIC GAIN THEORY OF WIDE BANDGAP SEMICONDUCTORS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Galbraith, Professor I |
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Physics |
| Organisation: |
Heriot-Watt University |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 April 1996 |
Ends: |
31 March 1999 |
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135,035
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Semiconductor lasers in the blue spectral region would find diverse applications in data retrieval and storage, printing and subsea communications. A detailed understanding of the light emission in these compounds is an essential pre-requisite to the design and optimisation of such devices and is properly based on a time dependent, microscopic quantum theory of the optical and electronic processes. The advent of wide-band-gap lasers has brought to our attention a new inversion regime, consisting of a mixed exciton/electron/hole plasma. We will explore the equilibrium and dynamical properties of such a plasma and the resulting optical gain and absorption characteristics. We hope, by addressing the problem in a fundamental way, to elucidate many of the properties of this technologically important material system.
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