Fast gain and phase recovery of semiconductor optical amplifiers based on submonolayer quantum dots
Herzog, Bastian; Owschimikow, Nina; Schulze, Jan-Hindrik; Rosales, Ricardo; Kaptan, Yücel; Kolarczik, Mirco; Switaiski, Thomas; Strittmatter, André; Bimberg, Dieter; Pohl, Udo W.; Woggon, Ulrike
Submonolayer quantum dots as active medium in opto-electronic devices promise to combine the high density of states of quantum wells with the fast recovery dynamics of self-assembled quantum dots. We investigate the gain and phase recovery dynamics of a semiconductor optical amplifier based on InAs submonolayer quantum dots in the regime of linear operation by one- and two-color heterodyne pump-probe spectroscopy. We find an as fast recovery dynamics as for quantum dot-in-a-well structures, reaching 2 ps at moderate injection currents. The effective quantum well embedding the submonolayer quantum dots acts as a fast and efficient carrier reservoir.
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