Quantum cascade laser utilising aluminium-free material system: InGaAs/GaAsSb lattice-matched to InP

Electronics Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 1031-1033

  Nobile, M ^a   Klang, P ^a   Mujagic E ^a   Detz, H ^a   Andrews, A M ^a   Schrenk, W ^a   Strasser, G ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INP; LASER EMISSION; LATTICE-MATCHED; MATERIAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL OUTPUT POWER;

ALUMINUM; MATERIALS SCIENCE; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

LASERS;

EID: 70349482107     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el.2009.1995     Document Type: Article

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