Quantum cascade lasers with double-quantum-well superlattices

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 278-280

  Wanke, Michael C ^a   Capasso, Federico ^b   Gmachl, Claire ^b   Tredicucci, Alessandro ^c   Sivco, Deborah L ^b   Hutchinson, Albert L ^b   Cho, Alfred Y ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

Intersubband; Mid infrared; Semiconductor injection laser; Semiconductor superlattices; Unipolar laser

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SUPERLATTICES;

QUANTUM CASCADE (QC) LASERS;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 0035303578     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.917824     Document Type: Article

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