Recent advances and future prospects of THz quantum cascade lasers

IRMMW-THz2007 - Conference Digest of the Joint 32nd International Conference on Infrared and Millimetre Waves, and 15th International Conference on Terahertz Electronics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 34-37

  Tredicucci, Alessandro ^a  

^a INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MILLIMETER WAVES; PHASE MATCHING; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK DEVICES; ELECTRO-MECHANICAL; FABRICATION METHOD; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS (QCLS); SINGLE MODE EMISSION; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; THZ QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

QUANTUM DOT LASERS;

EID: 47949101272     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icimw.2007.4516384     Document Type: Conference Paper

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