A phonon scattering assisted injection and extraction based terahertz quantum cascade laser

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Dupont, E ^a   Fathololoumi, S ^a,b   Wasilewski, Z R ^a   Aers, G ^a   Laframboise, S R ^a   Lindskog, M ^c   Razavipour, S G ^b   Wacker, A ^c   Ban, D ^b   Liu, H C ^d  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOPULATION RATES; DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCES; DOUBLE-METAL WAVEGUIDE; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTIC; FABRICATED DEVICE; GAAS; LASING THRESHOLD; MATERIAL SYSTEMS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION; OPTICAL POWER; OPTIMIZATION CODE; OSCILLATOR STRENGTHS; POPULATION INVERSIONS; RATE EQUATIONS; TERAHERTZ QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PHONONS; PRODUCT DESIGN; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 84861723780     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3702571     Document Type: Conference Paper

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