SOLAR PHOTORESONANT EXCITATION OF SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS AND PHOTOLUMINESCENT DEVICES,

Abstract

After reviewing briefly the various difficulties encountered in previous efforts to use sunlight for laser pumping, the authors show that one possible way of producing effective pumping is to produce resonant interaction between modulated sunlight and plasma waves in a semiconductor laser. The conditions for the occurrence of such waves by double injection are derived, and the method whereby sunlight modulated in space and in time resonate with the plasma waves to produce regions of unusually high carrier density sufficient to produce the stimulated emission in the semiconductor, is described in detail.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 17, 1969
Accession Number
AD0694819

Entities

People

  • A. Yu. Leiderman
  • P. M. Karageorgii-alkalaev

Organizations

  • National Air and Space Intelligence Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Compound Semiconductors
  • Electronics
  • Emission
  • Excitation
  • Laser Pumping
  • Lasers
  • Plasma Waves
  • Pumping
  • Semiconductor Lasers
  • Semiconductors
  • Solid State Electronics
  • Sunlight

Fields of Study

  • Engineering
  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics
  • Space