Indirect pump scheme for quantum cascade lasers: Dynamics of electron-transport and very high T0-values

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 20748-20758

  Yamanishi, Masamichi ^a   Fujita, Kazuue ^a   Edamura, Tadataka ^a   Kan, Hirofumi ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

CAVITY LENGTH; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HIGHER T; LOW THRESHOLD CURRENT DENSITY; MAXIMUM OUTPUT; PUMPING MODEL; TEMPERATURE CHANGES;

PUMPING (LASER);

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIODE LASER; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 57349158723     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020748     Document Type: Article

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