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Phonon Assisted Gain in a Semiconductor Quantum Dot Maser

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Author(s)

Michael Gullans, Yinyiu Liu, George Stehlik, Jason Petta, Jacob M. Taylor

Abstract

We develop a microscopic model for the recently demonstrated double quantum dot (DQD) maser. In characterizing the gain of this device we find that, in addition to the direct stimulated emission of photons, there is a large contribution from transitions that involve the simultaneous emission of a photon and a phonon. This phonon assisted process controls the masing transition because it dominates the gain in the region of large population inversion. These theoretical results are compared to experiment and good agreement is found.
Citation
Physical Review Letters

Keywords

double quantum dot, cavity quantum electrodynamics, maser

Citation

Gullans, M. , Liu, Y. , Stehlik, G. , Petta, J. and Taylor, J. (2015), Phonon Assisted Gain in a Semiconductor Quantum Dot Maser, Physical Review Letters, [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.196802 (Accessed April 26, 2024)
Created May 13, 2015, Updated November 10, 2018