Population inversion by resonant magnetic confinement in terahertz quantum-cascade lasers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 3453-3455

  Scalari, Giacomo ^a   Blaser, Stéphane ^a,c   Ajili, Lassaad ^a   Faist, Jérôme ^a   Beere, Harvey ^b   Linfield, Edmund ^b   Ritchie, David ^b   Davies, Giles ^b,d  

^a Universite de Neuchatel Institut de Physique   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Alpes Lasers SA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CURRENT DENSITY; ETCHING; LIGHT EMISSION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RELAXATION; PERMANENT MAGNETS; PHOTONS; SUPERLATTICES;

ELASTIC SCATTERING; MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0242498472     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1622431     Document Type: Article

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