Design of three-well indirect pumping terahertz quantum cascade lasers for high optical gain based on nonequilibrium Green's function analysis

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Tao ^a   Kubis, Tillmann ^b   Jie Wang, Qi ^a,c   Klimeck, Gerhard ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICROSSINGS; DIPOLE MATRIX ELEMENTS; HIGH OPTICAL GAIN; INJECTION SCHEMES; LASER LEVEL; LASING FREQUENCY; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; PUMPING SCHEMES; RESONANT PHONON; TERAHERTZ; TERAHERTZ QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS;

DESIGN; JET PUMPS; OPTICAL TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; RESONANT TUNNELING;

OPTICAL GAIN;

EID: 84859530143     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3697674     Document Type: Article

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