High performance interminiband quantum cascade lasers with graded superlattices

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 73, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 2101-2103

  Tredicucci, Alessandro ^a   Capasso, Federico ^a   Gmachl, Claire ^a   Sivco, Deborah L ^a   Hutchinson, Albert L ^a   Cho, Alfred Y ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; CURRENT DENSITY; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; LASER MODES; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; PHONONS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES;

INTERMINIBAND TRANSITIONS; LIGHT CURRENT CHARACTERISTICS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; THRESHOLD CURRENT DENSITY;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0032511685     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.122391     Document Type: Article

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