Surface plasmon photonic structures in terahertz quantum cascade lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 5335-5345

  Demichel, Olivier ^a,b   Mahler, Lukas ^a   Losco, Tonia ^a   Mauro, Cosimo ^a   Green, Richard ^a   Xu, Jihua ^a   Tredicucci, Alessandro ^a   Beltram, Fabio ^a   Beere, Harvey E ^c   Ritchie, David A ^c   Tamošiunas, Vincas ^d  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTER FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RESONATORS;

COUPLING STRENGTHS; PERIODIC SCATTERING; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SECOND-ORDER GRATINGS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 33745149759     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.005335     Document Type: Article

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