Theory of Carrier Heating Through Injection Pumping and Lasing in SemiconductorMicrocavity Lasers

摘要

Nonequilibrium carrier distributions in microcavity lasers are computed bysolution of a quantum Boltzmann equation that includes carrier-carrier-phonon, and carrier-photon scattering as well as the pump process. A significant heating of the carrier plasma is observed as a consequence of the Pauli blocking of carrier injection and the removal of cold carriers through the process of stimulated recombination.