Intersubband linewidths in quantum cascade laser designs

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 14, 2008, Pages

  Wittmann, A ^a   Bonetti, Y ^a   Faist, J ^a   Gini, E ^a   Giovannini, M ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; EXPERIMENTS; LASERS; LINEWIDTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHONONS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; RESONANCE; THRESHOLD CURRENT DENSITY;

A-PRIORI; BOUND-TO-CONTINUUM DESIGN; DIFFERENTIAL GAIN; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; INTER SUBBAND; INTERFACE ROUGHNESS SCATTERING; LIFETIME BROADENING; LINE-WIDTHS; LOW TEMPERATURES; OPTICAL-; PHONON RESONANCE; QUANTUM CASCADE; REASONABLE AGREEMENT; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; THRESHOLD CURRENTS;

DESIGN;

EID: 53649095812     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2993212     Document Type: Article

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