Transport and gain in a quantum cascade laser: Model and equivalent circuit

Optical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Khurgin, Jacob B ^a   Dikmelik, Yamac ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

infrared; semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT DESIGNERS; INFRARED; IV CHARACTERISTICS; RATE EQUATIONS; SCHOTTKY DIODES; SERIAL CONNECTION;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; LASERS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TUNNEL DIODES;

INFRARED LASERS;

EID: 79953859759     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3498774     Document Type: Article

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