Friedrich, Franziska (2019)
Hybrid coherent light - Modeling light-emitting quantum dot superluminescent diodes.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Ph.D. Thesis, Primary publication
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Item Type: | Ph.D. Thesis | ||||
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Type of entry: | Primary publication | ||||
Title: | Hybrid coherent light - Modeling light-emitting quantum dot superluminescent diodes | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Referees: | Walser, Prof. Dr. Reinhold ; Elsäßer, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang | ||||
Date: | 2019 | ||||
Place of Publication: | Darmstadt | ||||
Date of oral examination: | 19 February 2019 | ||||
Abstract: | Commercial devices for optical coherence tomography greatly benefit from the exceptional features of broadband light-emitting quantum dot superluminescent diodes (QDSLDs). Here, light generation occurs at the transition from spontaneous to stimulated emission, the regime of the amplified spontaneous emission. In this context, initially spontaneously emitted photons are amplified by stimulated emission processes when traversing through the QDSLD, which leads to strong light amplification. The suitable choice of the waveguide geometry and the gain medium formed by quantum dots, enables large spectral widths of some terahertz combined with a rather higher degree of spatial coherence. Modern measurement methods based on two-photon absorption processes provide a temporal resolution of some femtoseconds and thus allow correlation studies of the emitted QDSLD light. Also from a theoretical point of view, the characterization of the amplified spontaneous emission generated by QDSLDs and their associated photon statistics represents an interesting and challenging research topic. Especially in a particular temperature regime these devices exhibit uncommon properties with regard to the temporal field and intensity correlations: While the field correlation reflects the rather highly incoherent nature of light emitted by QDSLDs due to its spectral width of several THz, a reduction of the second order correlation from 2 to 1.33 at a temperature of T=190K was observed in the Semiconductor Optics group of Prof. W. Elsäßer at the Technical University of Darmstadt in 2011. The understanding of the occurrence of these hybrid coherent light states, which are simultaneously incoherent in first and coherent in second order correlation function is the subject of this thesis. In a first step we find the quantum mechanical light state associated with the QDSLD to be well described by a multimode phase-randomized Gaussian state by comparison with experimental results. In the second step we present a microscopic theory of the amplified spontaneous emission, which allows an explanation of the temperature-dependent noise suppression of broadband QDSLDs. For this purpose we consider distinguishable quantum dots, which are embedded in a strongly absorptive bulk material that defines a waveguide. Tilted and anti-reflection coated output facets, leading to a suppression of longitudinal modes, are modeled by beam splitters that couple the internal field to the surroundings. Regarding the spectral properties of QDSLDs, the broadband light generated inside the diode is described by a multimode electric field. This multimode quantum field theory yields rate equations for the optical power densities and the level occupation of the inhomogeneous ensemble of quantum dots within the diode. With the help of the input-output formalism, we determine the optical power spectrum. As a main result, we find the broadband external power spectrum to be a convolution of the intra-diode photon spectrum with a Lorentzian response. This finding corresponds with experimentally available spectra. Furthermore, based on the quantum theory of QDSLDs we determine the central second-order degree of coherence. It reveals a reduction within a special detuning regime and therefore allows the interpretation of the hybrid coherent light phenomenon from a quantum optical point of view. |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-85278 | ||||
Classification DDC: | 500 Science and mathematics > 530 Physics | ||||
Divisions: | 05 Department of Physics > Institute of Applied Physics > Theorie kalter Quantengase, Quantenoptik, Technische Optik | ||||
Date Deposited: | 06 Mar 2019 13:39 | ||||
Last Modified: | 09 Jul 2020 02:32 | ||||
URI: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/8527 | ||||
PPN: | 445829338 | ||||
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