Recent progress in interband cascade lasers with separate confinement layers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7230, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Yang, Rui Q ^a   Tian, Zhaobing ^a   Hinkey, Robert T ^a   Zhao, Fanghai ^a   Mansour, Kamjou ^b   Hill, Cory J ^b   Qiu, Yueming ^b  

^a University of Oklahoma   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lasers; Mid infrared; Quantum wells; Semiconductors

Indexed keywords

CW OPERATIONS; INTERBAND CASCADE LASERS; LOW-POWER; MID-INFRARED; QUANTUM WELLS; RECENT PROGRESS; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTORS; SEPARATE CONFINEMENT LAYERS;

CRYSTALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INFRARED DEVICES; LASERS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES; WELLS;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 63449095356     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.807595     Document Type: Conference Paper

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