Quantum Cascade Lasers without Intersubband Population Inversion

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 411-414

  Faist, Jérôme ^a   Capasso, Federico ^a   Sirtori, Carlo ^a   Sivco, Deborah L ^a   Hutchinson, Albert L ^a   Hybertsen, Mark S ^a   Cho, Alfred Y ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; PHONONS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

BAND NONPARABOLICITY; GALLIUM INDIUM ARSENIDE; INTERSUBBAND SCATTERING; POPULATION INVERSION; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; RATE EQUATIONS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0029756698     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.411     Document Type: Article

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