Time-Resolved Thermal Quenching of THz Quantum Cascade Lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 396-404

  Fathololoumi, Saeed ^a,b   Graf, Marcel ^a,b   Dupont, Emmanuel ^a   Laframboise, Sylvain R ^a   Wasilewski, Zbig R ^a   Liu, H C ^a   Ban, Dayan ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Thermal dynamics; THz quantum cascade laser; THz quantum well photodetector; time resolved measurements

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008031226     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: 15581713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2031250     Document Type: Article

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