THz and sub-THz quantum cascade lasers

Laser and Photonics Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 45-66

  Scalari, Giacomo ^a   Walther, Christoph ^a   Fischer, Milan ^a   Terazzi, Romain ^a   Beere, Harvey ^b   Ritchie, David ^b   Faist, Jérôme ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intersubband; Keywords; Laser; Low frequency; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

EID: 69549119311     PISSN: 18638880     EISSN: 18638899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.200810030     Document Type: Article

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