Impact of Transient Population Grating on the Superradiant Phase Transition in Semiconductor Laser Structures

Abstract

We study theoretically and experimentally superradiant dynamics in multiple-section GaAs/AlGaAs laser structures. We develop a model based on the one-dimensional Maxwell curl equations without making use of the slowly-varying envelope approximation and demonstrate that strong transient periodic modulation of both e – h density and refractive index drastically affect the dynamics of emission generation in semiconductor media. We show that the coherent λ/2 transient population and the relative permittivity gratings facilitate e – h self-ordering and the onset of the superradiant phase transition in the e – h system.