Near-room-temperature photon-noise-limited quantum well infrared photodetector

Laser and Photonics Reviews

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 297-302

  Hao, Ming Rui ^a   Yang, Yao ^a   Zhang, Shuai ^a   Shen, Wen Zhong ^a   Schneider, Harald ^a,b   Liu, Hui Chun ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Background limited performance; Photon noise limited performance; Quantum well infrared photodetector; QWIP

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND-LIMITED PERFORMANCE; DETECTION WAVELENGTHS; INFRARED LASER SOURCES; NEAR ROOM TEMPERATURE; PHOTON-NOISE-LIMITED PERFORMANCE; QWIP; ROOM-TEMPERATURE OPERATION; SENSING APPLICATIONS;

INFRARED DETECTORS; INFRARED LASERS; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; QUANTUM WELL INFRARED PHOTODETECTORS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84896770726     PISSN: 18638880     EISSN: 18638899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.201300147     Document Type: Article

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