High-power continuous-wave quantum cascade lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 336-341

  Faist, Jérôme ^a,b,d   Tredicucci, Alessandro ^a   Capasso, Federico ^a,d   Sirtori, Carlo ^c,d   Sivco, Deborah L ^a   Baillargeon, James N ^a   Hutchinson, Albert L ^a,d   Cho, Alfred Y ^a,d  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c THALES   (France)

^d IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; HEAT LOSSES; HIGH POWER LASERS; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING; RESONANT TUNNELING; UNIPOLAR SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 0032001717     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.658728     Document Type: Article

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