Temperature degradation of the gain transition in terahertz quantum cascade lasers - The role of acoustic phonon scattering

Physica Status Solidi (C) Current Topics in Solid State Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 579-582

  Nelander, Rikard ^a   Wacker, Andreas ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PHONONS; ACOUSTIC-PHONON SCATTERING; GAIN PEAKS; PEAK GAIN; SELF ENERGY; TEMPERATURE DEGRADATION; TERAHERTZ QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS;

DEGRADATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHONON SCATTERING; PHONONS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 66749096050     PISSN: 18626351     EISSN: 16101642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssc.200880318     Document Type: Conference Paper

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