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Tuning the Quantum Efficiency of Random Lasers - Intrinsic Stokes-Shift and Gain

Optics 2020-01-22 v3 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Soft Condensed Matter Quantum Physics

Abstract

We report the theoretical analysis for tuning the quantum efficiency of solid state random lasers. Vollhardt-Woelfle theory of photonic transport in disordered non-conserving and open random media, is coupled to lasing dynamics and solved positionally dependent. The interplay of non-linearity and homogeneous non-radiative frequency conversion by means of a Stokes-shift leads to a reduction of the quantum efficiency of the random laser. At the threshold a strong decrease of the spot-size in the stationary state is found due to the increase of non-radiative losses. The coherently emitted photon number per unit of modal surface is also strongly reduced. This result allows for the conclusion that Stokes-shifts are not sufficient to explain confined and extended mode regimes.

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@article{arxiv.1505.06781,
  title  = {Tuning the Quantum Efficiency of Random Lasers - Intrinsic Stokes-Shift and Gain},
  author = {Andreas Lubatsch and Regine Frank},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.06781},
  year   = {2020}
}

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4 figures, Scientific Reports (2015)