Abstract
Coherent transitions of charge carriers between the conduction and valence bands of a semiconductor medium are essential for the operation of a semiconductor laser. In this paper, we study how such interband coherence can be set up by an injection current and a coherent pump-field. In the absence of the pump-field, the injection current is the only source to establish the interband coherence in a semiconductor laser system. A laser threshold is obtained, which shows that a strongly coupled high-Q microcavity has a low threshold value. However, when an external pump-field serving as another mechanism to create the interband coherence is applied, the threshold value of the injection current can be lowered and it vanishes for sufficiently strong field. Besides, if the pump-field exceeds a threshold value, it is even possible to achieve a bistability in the inversionless region. Some fundamental macroscopic properties, including polarization, absorption and dispersion for the semicoductor system, are also obtained analytically.
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