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A new model describing the decrease in the emission efficiency and optical output power of a semiconductor laser above the lasing threshold of the Fabry-Perot mode is suggested. The mechanism of deterioration of the output-power characteristics is described in the suggested model in terms of the achievement of closed-mode threshold conditions. Rate equations are used to analyze how the closed-mode threshold conditions are satisfied in semiconductor lasers.
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Original Russian Text © S.O. Slipchenko, A.A. Podoskin, I.S. Shashkin, V.V. Zolotarev, N.A. Pikhtin, I.S. Tarasov, 2014, published in Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 2014, Vol. 48, No. 5, pp. 705–709.
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Slipchenko, S.O., Podoskin, A.A., Shashkin, I.S. et al. Analysis of the emission efficiency of powerful semiconductor lasers under closed-mode threshold lasing conditions. Semiconductors 48, 686–690 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782614050212
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