High Speed Quantum-Well Lasers and Carrier Transport Effects

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 1992, Pages 1990-2008

  Nagarajan, Radhakrishnan ^a   Ishikawa, Masayuki ^a   Fukushima, Toru ^a   Geels, Randall S ^a   Bowers, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

CARRIER TRANSPORT; MODULATION RESPONSES;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0026938148     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: 15581713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.159508     Document Type: Article

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