Semiclassical model for the relative intensity noise of intersubband quantum cascade lasers

Optics Communications

Volumn 256, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 171-183

  Gensty, Tobias ^a   Elsäßer, Wolfgang ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Quantum cascade laser; Relative intensity noise; Semiconductor laser

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; RATE EQUATIONS; RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 27644580755     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2005.07.020     Document Type: Article

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