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Residual adrenal tissue of approximately 10-15% offers intact stress capacity. However, an exact determination of the size of an adrenal remnant after STAE has limitations. CT gives larger volumes compared with intraoperative determination. For calculation of a volume-function correlation of residual adrenal tissue, in clinical practice, the determination of relative adrenal residual volume is acceptable.

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We investigate the dynamics of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) in self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots, using pulsed optical excitation of an edge-emitting sample at room temperature. A material gain of 1.5×104 cm−1 is determined for 800 nm excitation with 1.5 μJ/cm2 pulses. Using photoluminescence up-conversion, we show that increases in both electron–hole pair density and photon density in the excited stripe cause a significant decrease in the decay time from 2.2 ns, corresponding to spontaneous emission, to about 0.9 ns, corresponding to stimulated emission or ASE. A carrier capture time of 10 ps limits the onset of the ASE process for short stripe lengths.