High power mid-infrared interband cascade lasers based on type-II quantum wells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 71, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 2409-2411

  Yang, Rui Q ^a,b   Yang, B H ^a   Zhang, D ^a   Lin, C H ^a   Murry, S J ^a   Wu, H ^a   Pei, S S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b QET Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; LASER OPTICS; LASER PULSES; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SUBSTRATES;

DOUBLE CRYSTAL X RAY DIFFRACTION; GALLIUM ANTIMONIDE; PHOTON EMISSION; QUANTUM CASCADE LASER; THRESHOLD CURRENT; WAVELENGTH;

HIGH POWER LASERS;

EID: 0031588260     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.120076     Document Type: Article

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