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Impact of Transient Population Grating on the Superradiant Phase Transition in Semiconductor Laser Structures

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We study theoretically and experimentally superradiant dynamics in multiple-section GaAs/AlGaAs laser structures. We develop a model based on the one-dimensional Maxwell curl equations without making use of the slowly-varying envelope approximation and demonstrate that strong transient periodic modulation of both eh density and refractive index drastically affect the dynamics of emission generation in semiconductor media. We show that the coherent λ/2 transient population and the relative permittivity gratings facilitate eh self-ordering and the onset of the superradiant phase transition in the eh system.

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Vasil’ev, P.P. Impact of Transient Population Grating on the Superradiant Phase Transition in Semiconductor Laser Structures. J Russ Laser Res 41, 181–190 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10946-020-09863-z

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