Terahertz amplifier based on gain switching in a quantum cascade laser

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 715-719

  Jukam, Nathan ^a   Dhillon, Sukhdeep S ^a   Oustinov, Dimitri ^a   Madeo, Julien ^a   Manquest, Christrophe ^b   Barbieri, Stefano ^b   Sirtori, Carlo ^b   Khanna, Suraj P ^c   Linfield, Edmund H ^c   Davies, A Giles ^c   Tignon, Jérôme ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONEQUILIBRIUM STATE; SATURATION FIELDS; TERAHERTZ AMPLIFIERS; TERAHERTZ PULSE; TERAHERTZ QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRAFAST GAIN;

AMPLIFICATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 72449145740     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.213     Document Type: Article

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