The effect of barrier composition on the vertical carrier transport and lasing properties of 1.55-μm multiple quantum-well structures

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 713-714

  Akram, Muhammad Nadeem ^a   Kjebon, Olle ^a   Marcinkevičius, Saulius ^a   Schatz, Richard ^a   Berggren, Jesper ^a   Olsson, Fredrik ^a   Lourdudoss, Sebastian ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Carrier transport; Fabry Perot laser; InGaAIAs; InGaAsP; Quantum well (QW); Time resolved photo luminescence

Indexed keywords

EID: 51849096527     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/jqe.2006.876710     Document Type: Article

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