Bloch gain in quantum cascade lasers

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 329-333

  Terazzi, Romain ^a   Gresch, Tobias ^a   Giovannini, Marcella ^a   Hoyler, Nicolas ^a   Sekine, Norihiko ^b   Faist, Jérôme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

BLOCH OSCILLATORS; ELECTRICAL STABILITY; LASER ACTION; POPULATION INVERSIONS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS (QCLS); SEMICONDUCTOR HETEROSTRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR PROPERTIES; SPECTRAL SIGNATURE;

SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 34247863638     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys577     Document Type: Article

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