Theory of resonant cavity-enhanced detection applied to thermal infrared light

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 572-579

  Rosencher, Emmanuel ^a   Haïdar, Riad ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Cavity resonators; Infrared detectors; Quantumwell (QW) devices

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING LAYERS; ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIORS; CAVITY ENHANCED ABSORPTION; CAVITY ENHANCEMENT; GAIN-BANDWIDTH PRODUCTS; GENERAL TRENDS; LIGHT WAVELENGTHS; MODEL SYSTEM; NONRESONANT; QUANTUM DOT; QUANTUM WELL DEVICE; QUANTUMWELL (QW) DEVICES; RESONANT CAVITY; SEMICONDUCTOR MICROCAVITIES; STANDING WAVE EFFECTS; THERMAL INFRARED; TRANSFER MATRIXES; TYPE-II QUANTUM WELLS;

ABSORPTION; BANDWIDTH; INFRARED DETECTORS; MICROCAVITIES; MICROWAVE DEVICES; RESONATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

DETECTORS;

EID: 67650429513     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2007.898845     Document Type: Article

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