High-power continuous-wave mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers based on strain-balanced heterostructures

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5840 PART I, Issue , 2005, Pages 54-63

  Razeghi, M ^a   Evans, A ^a   Slivken, S ^a   Yu, J S ^a   Zheng, J G ^a   Dravid, V P ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Gas Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy; InP; Intersubband Transition; Mid infrared; Quantum Cascade Laser; Strain Balanced

Indexed keywords

GAS SOURCE MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; INP; INTERSUBBAND TRANSITION; MID-INFRARED; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS (QCL);

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CASCADE CONTROL SYSTEMS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER THEORY; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; STRAIN; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 28344452632     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.607576     Document Type: Conference Paper

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