New frontiers in quantum cascade lasers and applications

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 931-946

  Capasso, Federico ^a   Gmachl, Claire ^a   Paiella, Roberto ^a   Tredicucci, Alessandro ^a   Hutchinson, Albert L ^a   Sivco, Deborah L ^a   Baillargeon, James N ^a   Cho, Alfred Y ^a   Liu, H C ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemical sensing; High speed optoelectronic devices; Injection lasers; Intersubband transitions; Mid infrared; Semiconductor heterostructures; Unipolar semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT EMISSION; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

QUANTUM CASCADE (QC) LASERS;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 0034313133     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.902142     Document Type: Article

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