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Yan Xu1, Yihan Xiang1, Meng Shi1
1Wuhan University, Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education, and School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan 430072, China.
Abstract:
The highly excited electron-hole plasma (EHP) phase is a natural platform for studying amplified spontaneous emission (ASE), yet research into the many-body physics of EHP and ASE in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors remains limited. Here, we report the first observation of ASE from EHP in 2D semiconductors, evidenced by an unusually sharp enhancement of emissions in suspended bilayer WS_{2} at a threshold power, confirming the transient differential transmission measurements under continuous wave excitations. We modeled the optical dielectric response of varying densities of excited carriers and accurately reproduced the observed emission features across different electron-hole phases from bilayer WS_{2} over a simple Fabry-Pérot cavity. This, together with spatially resolved emissions, confirmed that ASE stems from the degenerate EHP. Our analysis highlights the crucial role of many-body interactions in achieving ASE in 2D EHP. This Letter provides a new insight into the rich physics in EHP and expands the potential for developing advanced 2D semiconductor based optoelectronic devices.
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