Photonic lattice based Quantum Cascade Lasers at Terahertz frequencies

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6386, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sirigu, Lorenzo ^a   Terazzi, Romain ^a   Scalari, Giacomo ^a   Amanti, Maria I ^a   Giovannini, Marcella ^a   Faist, Jérôme ^a   Dunbar, L Andrea ^b   Houdré, Romuald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Intersubband transitions; Optical resonators; Photonic crystals; Quantum Cascade Lasers; Vertical emission

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; LIGHT EMISSION; MIRRORS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

INTERSUBBAND TRANSITIONS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; VERTICAL EMISSION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 33846219860     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.685946     Document Type: Conference Paper

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