Microcavity semiconductor laser with enhanced spontaneous emission
- 1 July 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 44 (1), 657-668
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.44.657
Abstract
A metal-clad optical waveguide with a semiconductor microcavity structure is proposed to increase the coupling efficiency of spontaneous emission into a lasing mode (spontaneous emission coefficient β) and to increase a total spontaneous emission rate simultaneously. Such a microcavity semiconductor laser with enhanced spontaneous emission has novel characteristics, including high quantum efficiency, low threshold pump rate, broad modulation bandwidth, and intensity noise reduced to below the shot-noise limit (amplitude squeezing).Keywords
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