Optimum resonant tunnelling injection and influence of doping density on the performance of THz bound-to-continuum cascade lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5727, Issue , 2005, Pages 65-73

  Alton, J ^a,b   Barbieri, S ^a,b   Worrall, C ^b   Houghton, M ^a,b   Beere, H E ^b   Linfield, E L ^c   Ritchie, D A ^b  

^a TERAVIEW LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bound to continuum; Far infrared; Intersubband; Quantum cascade laser; Superlattice; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; CURRENT DENSITY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LEAKAGE CURRENTS; LIGHT SCATTERING; QUANTUM OPTICS; SUPERLATTICES;

BOUND-TO-CONTINUUM; FAR-INFRARED; INTERSUBBAND; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; TERAHERTZ;

LASER BEAM EFFECTS;

EID: 22044451833     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.590699     Document Type: Conference Paper

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