Buried heterostructure quantum cascade lasers with a large optical cavity waveguide

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1450-1452

  Beck, Mattias ^a,b   Faist, Jérôme ^a,e   Oesterle, Ursula ^c   Ilegems, Marc ^c,e   Gini, Emilio ^d   Melchior, Hans ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b Alpes Lasers ^*  (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e IEEE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERSUBBAND TRANSITION; MID INFRARED SEMICONDUCTOR LASER; OPTICAL CAVITY WAVEGUIDE; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

HEAT LOSSES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INFRARED RADIATION; METALLORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0034314075     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.887653     Document Type: Article

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