Pulsed and continuous-wave operation of long wavelength infrared (λ = 9.3 μm) quantum cascade lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 89-92

  Sirtori, Carlo ^a,b,c,d   Faist, Jerome ^a,b,e,f   Capasso, Federico ^a,b,d,g   Sivco, Deborah L ^b   Hutchinson, Albert L ^a,b   Cho, Alfred Y ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d Device Research Department   (United States)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

^f IBM   (United States)

^g SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Environmental sensing; Intersubband transitions; Mid infrared; Resonant tunneling; Unipolar semiconductor laser

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

INTERSUBBAND LUMINESCENCE; INTERSUBBAND TRANSITION; OPTICAL PHONON ENERGY; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; RESONANT TUNNELING; THRESHOLD CURRENT DENSITY;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 0030781820     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.554898     Document Type: Article

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