Activation energy study of electron transport in high performance short wavelengths quantum cascade lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 746-753

  Pflugl, Christian ^a   Diehl, Laurent ^a   Lyakh, Arkadiy ^b   Jie Wang, Qi ^a   Maulini, Richard ^b   Tsekoun, Alexei ^b   Patel, C Kumar N ^b,c   Wang, Xiaojun ^d   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Pranalytica Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ADTECH OPTICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH ENERGY LASERS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CURRENT PATHS; DEVICE OPTIMIZATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY DIFFERENCES; FIXED VOLTAGE; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; INGAAS/INALAS QUANTUM WELL; LASER LEVEL; LOW TEMPERATURES; PARASITIC CURRENT; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ACTIVATION ENERGY;

QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIODE LASER; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 75249102007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.000746     Document Type: Article

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