Low-threshold terahertz quantum-cascade lasers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1381-1383

  Rochat, Michel ^a   Ajili, Lassaad ^a   Willenberg, Harald ^a   Faist, Jérome ^a   Beere, Harvey ^b   Davies, Giles ^b   Linfield, Edmund ^b   Ritchie, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REGIONS; BURIED CONTACT; HIGH REFLECTIVITY; INTERFACE PLASMONS; LOW THRESHOLDS; OPTICAL POWER; TERAHERTZ QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS;

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICS;

QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

EID: 79956003875     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1498861     Document Type: Article

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