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Optical Gain

Optical Gain is a physical phenomenon in semiconductor optoelectronic devices wherein incident photons stimulate the emission of additional photons through population inversion in the conduction and valence bands, resulting in the amplification of optical signals within a laser diode.

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Optical Processes in Semiconductors

J. I. Pánkové, D. A. Kiewit · Journal of The Electrochemical Society · 1972 · 4.6K citations

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Optical Gain and Stimulated Emission in Nanocrystal Quantum Dots

Victor I. Klimov, Alexander Mikhailovsky, Su Xu et al. · Science · 2000 · 2.8K citations

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Two-Dimensional Photonic Band-Gap Defect Mode Laser

Oskar Painter, R. K. Lee, A. Scherer et al. · Science · 1999 · 2.3K citations

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Optical gain in silicon nanocrystals

Lorenzo Pavesi, Luca Dal Negro, Cláudio Mazzoleni et al. · Nature · 2000 · 2.3K citations

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Room-temperature ultraviolet laser emission from self-assembled ZnO microcrystallite thin films

Zikang Tang, George K. Wong, Ping Yu et al. · Applied Physics Letters · 1998 · 1.8K citations · Full text

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    John E. Bowers

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    34 publications · 2.1K citations

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    Doyeol Ahn

    University of Seoul, South Korea

    27 publications · 1.4K citations

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    G. Eisenstein

    Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

    27 publications · 1.1K citations

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    Ruidong Xia

    Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

    21 publications · 1.4K citations

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    Donal D. C. Bradley

    Imperial College London, United Kingdom

    20 publications · 1.3K citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

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    424 publications

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  2. AT&T (United States)

    Bedminster, United States

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    306 publications

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  3. Nanyang Technological University

    Singapore, Singapore

    37 h-index

    303 publications

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  4. NTT (Japan)

    Tokyo, Japan

    35 h-index

    257 publications

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  5. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    34 h-index

    328 publications

    12.8K citations

  6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    33 h-index

    195 publications

    27.7K citations

  7. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    31 h-index

    170 publications

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  8. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

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    232 publications

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  1. Applied Physics Letters

    499 publications · 25K citations

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  2. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

    338 publications · 19.6K citations

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  3. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

    IPTEL · 275 publications · 10.1K citations

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  4. Journal of Applied Physics

    208 publications · 10.9K citations

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  5. Optics Express

    183 publications · 7.9K citations

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