Resonant tunneling in quantum cascade lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1722-1729

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

^a IEEE   (France)

^b THALES   (France)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Intersubband transitions; Mid infrared; Quantum design; Resonant tunneling; Unipolar semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; FERMI LEVEL; INJECTION LASERS;

LASER TRANSITION; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 0032166359     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.709589     Document Type: Article

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