Nonequilibrium many-body theory of intersubband lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 292-301

  Waldmueller, Inès ^a   Chow, Weng W ^a   Young, Erik W ^a   Wanke, Michael C ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Intersubband semiconductor laser; Microscopic scattering; Nonequilibrium laser dynamics; Relaxation rate approximation

Indexed keywords

INTER-SUBBAND; INTERSUBBAND SEMICONDUCTOR LASER; LASER DYNAMICS; MICROSCOPIC SCATTERING; NON EQUILIBRIUM; RELAXATION RATES;

ELECTRON MOBILITY; LASERS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

LASER THEORY;

EID: 33748259519     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2006.869813     Document Type: Article

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