Abstract

Recent experimental and theoretical¹ work has demonstrated that the linear response of a semiconductor laser to a single pulse of photons evolving within the gain medium has a relatively simple form when the duration of the pulse is less than the cavity transit time. By assuming a parabolic form for the spectral dependence of the gain curve in the vicinity of the gain peak g_pk, it is shown here for the first time that the total response N of the cavity to an Input pulse containing photons is given by the complex function²

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