journal article·2024-01-23Open access

Gapless fluctuations and exceptional points in semiconductor lasers

N. H. Kwong, M. Em. Spotnitz, R. Binder

Physical Review B· Volume 109· Issue 4

Abstract

Semiconductor lasers have formal analogies to Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superconductors. This work shows that, in analogy to gapless superconductivity, a gapless lasing parametric regime, in which the frequency gap in the fluctuation spectrum is closed, exists for steady-state semiconductor lasers. The gap opens when the laser intensity exceeds a threshold. This gapless-to-gapped transition occurs at a third-order exceptional point.
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OpenAlex topics: Strong Light-Matter Interactions · Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates · Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices

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Affiliations

Wyant College of Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA

Department of Physics, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA

Funding

National Science Foundation · University of Arizona

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