Double Tunneling-Injection Quantum Dot Lasers for High-Speed Operation

Abstract

1) The upper limit for the modulation bandwidth of double tunneling-injection (DTI) quantum dot (QD) lasers has been calculated. The optimum cavity length, surface density of QDs, and dc injection current density, maximizing the modulation bandwidth, have been shown to exist. The higher the dc injection current density, the smaller should be the optimum values of the cavity length and the surface density of QDs. While the maximum bandwidth has been shown to be the same in DTI and conventional QD lasers and unaffected by the differential gain, the optimum dc current density, being inversely proportional to the differential gain, is lower in a DTI laser.

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
Jun 25, 2021
Source ID
W911NF1310445

Entities

People

  • Levon V Asryan

Organizations

  • Army Contracting Command
  • United States Army
  • Virginia Tech

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electronics Engineering
  • Plasma Physics.
  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Quantum Computing