Magnetically assisted quantum cascade laser emitting from 740 GHz to 1.4 THz

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Scalari, Giacomo ^a   Turčinková, Dana ^a   Lloyd Hughes, James ^a   Amanti, Maria I ^a   Fischer, Milan ^a   Beck, Mattias ^a   Faist, J́rôme ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INJECTION MECHANISMS; LASER ACTION; LASER EMISSION; LASER PHOTON ENERGIES; MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC FIELDS; QUANTUM CASCADE STRUCTURES; QUANTUM CASCADES;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

EID: 77956217813     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3481698     Document Type: Article

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