High-power long-wavelength (λ ∼ 11.5 μm) quantum cascade lasers operating above room temperature

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1100-1102

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

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c THALES   (France)

Author keywords

Environmental sensing; Intersubband transition; Midinfrared; Resonant tunneling; Unipolar semiconductor laser

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES;

ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING; INTERSUBBAND TRANSITION; RESONANT TUNNELING; UNIPOLAR SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0032137084     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.701515     Document Type: Article

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