GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs quantum cascade lasers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 73, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 3486-3488

  Sirtori, Carlo ^a   Kruck, Peter ^a   Barbieri, Stefano ^a   Collot, Philippe ^a   Nagle, Julien ^a   Beck, Mattias ^b   Faist, Jérome ^b   Oesterle, Ursula ^c  

^a THALES   (France)

^b Universite de Neuchatel Institut de Physique   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SUBSTRATES; THERMAL EFFECTS; WAVEGUIDE JUNCTIONS;

LASER EMISSION WAVELENGTH; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; THRESHOLD CURRENT DENSITY;

INJECTION LASERS;

EID: 0032517715     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.122812     Document Type: Article

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