Distributed feedback ring resonators for vertically emitting terahertz quantum cascade lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 13031-13039

  Mahler, Lukas ^a   Amanti, Maria I ^b   Walther, Christoph ^b   Tredicucci, Alessandro ^a   Beltram, Fabio ^a   Faist, Jérôme ^b   Beere, Harvey E ^c   Ritchie, David A ^c  

^a INFM   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK; DISTRIBUTED-FEEDBACK TERAHERTZ QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS; DOUBLE SLITS; EFFICIENT POWER; ELECTRICAL CONTACTS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; TERAHERTZ QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS; VERTICAL DIRECTION;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 67749120502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.013031     Document Type: Article

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