Far-infrared and ultra-high-speed quantum-cascade lasers

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 40-46

  Capasso, Federico ^a   Colombelli, Raffaele ^a   Paiella, Roberto ^b   Gmachl, Claire ^a   Tredicucci, Alessandro ^c   Sivco, Deborah L ^a   Cho, Alfred Y ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b AGERE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PERMITTIVITY; PHOTONS; SUPERLATTICES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 0035353884     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.12.5.000040     Document Type: Article

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