Noncascaded intersubband injection lasers at λ≈7.7 μm

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 73, Issue 26, 1998, Pages 3830-3832

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

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ELECTRON SCATTERING; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SUPERLATTICES;

BRAGG REFLECTOR; ELECTRON LONGITUDINAL OPTICAL PHONON SCATTERING; NONCASCADED INTERDUBBAND INJECTION LASERS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

INJECTION LASERS;

EID: 0032576511     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.122908     Document Type: Article

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