Investigation of spectral gain narrowing in quantum cascade lasers using terahertz time domain spectroscopy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Jukam, N ^a   Dhillon, S S ^a   Oustinov, D ^a   Zhao, Z Y ^a   Hameau, S ^a   Tignon, J ^a   Barbieri, S ^b   Vasanelli, A ^b   Filloux, P ^b   Sirtori, C ^b   Marcadet, X ^c  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; PLASMONS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; REFLECTOMETERS; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS;

ACTIVE REGIONS; APPLIED BIAS; BAND STRUCTURE CALCULATION; BOUND-TO-CONTINUUM; LASING ACTION; SPECTRAL GAIN; TERAHERTZ QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 51749099570     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2979682     Document Type: Article

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