InAs-based plasmon-waveguide interband cascade lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7616, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Tian, Zhaobing ^a   Chen, Chen ^a   Yang, Rui Q ^a   Mishima, Tetsuya D ^b   Santos, Michael B ^b   Keay, Joel C ^b   Johnson, Matthew B ^b   Klem, J F ^c  

^a University of Oklahoma   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Interband cascade lasers; Mid infrared; Semiconductors; Type II quantum wells

Indexed keywords

BAND GAPS; CONTINUOUS-WAVE OPERATIONS; CW OPERATION; INAS; INJECTED ELECTRONS; INTER-BAND TRANSITION; INTERBAND CASCADE LASER; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; MIDINFRARED; PHOTON EMISSIONS; PHOTON GENERATION; PLASMON WAVEGUIDE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; THERMAL DISSIPATION; TYPE-II QUANTUM WELLS; WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED LASERS; LASERS; PHOTONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 77951608542     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.842150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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