Thermal behavior investigation of terahertz quantum-cascade lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1139-1144

  Fathololoumi, Saeed ^a,b   Ban, Dayan ^b   Luo, Hui ^a   Dupont, Emmanuel ^a   Laframboise, Sylvain R ^a   Boucherif, Abderaouf ^a   Liu, H C ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Band to band photoluminescence; Continuous wave (CW) operation; Terahertz quantum cascade laser (QCL)

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONDUCTION; LASERS; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ACTIVE REGIONS; BAND-TO-BAND PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; CASCADE LASERS; CONTINUOUS-WAVE (CW) OPERATION; IN-SITU; MEASURED RESULTS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TERAHERTZ; TERAHERTZ QUANTUM-CASCADE LASER (QCL); THERMAL BEHAVIORS; THERMAL RESISTANCES; WAVE OPERATIONS;

HEAT RESISTANCE;

EID: 57049088539     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2008.2001901     Document Type: Article

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