Effect of oscillator strength and intermediate resonance on the performance of resonant phonon-based terahertz quantum cascade lasers

S Fathololoumi, E Dupont, ZR Wasilewski… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We experimentally investigated the effect of oscillator strength (radiative transition
diagonality) on the performance of resonant phonon-based terahertz quantum cascade …

Terahertz quantum cascade lasers operating up to∼ 200 K with optimized oscillator strength and improved injection tunneling

S Fathololoumi, E Dupont, CWI Chan… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
A new temperature performance record of 199.5 K for terahertz quantum cascade lasers is
achieved by optimizing the lasing transition oscillator strength of the resonant phonon based …

The significance of carrier leakage for stable lasing in split-well direct phonon terahertz quantum cascade lasers

N Lander Gower, S Piperno, A Albo - Photonics, 2020 - mdpi.com
We studied the temperature performance of split-well direct phonon terahertz quantum
cascade lasers and found that it is limited by a lasing instability that becomes significant as …

Clean three-level direct-phonon injection terahertz quantum cascade laser

L Wang, TT Lin, K Wang, H Hirayama - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
For terahertz quantum cascade lasers employing the nonalignment injection scheme via
direct-phonon resonance, this study presents the crucial effect of parasitic absorption in the …

Split-well resonant-phonon terahertz quantum cascade laser

S Levy, N Lander Gower, S Piperno, SJ Addamane… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We present a highly diagonal “split-well resonant-phonon”(SWRP) active region design for
GaAs/Al_0. 3Ga_0. 7As terahertz quantum cascade lasers (THz-QCLs). Negative differential …

Dual resonance phonon–photon–phonon terahertz quantum-cascade laser: physics of the electron transport and temperature performance optimization

A Demić, Z Ikonić, P Dean, D Indjin - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The state of the art terahertz-frequency quantum cascade lasers have opened a plethora of
applications over the past two decades by testing several designs up to the very limit of …

[HTML][HTML] Two-well injector direct-phonon terahertz quantum cascade lasers

N Lander Gower, S Levy, S Piperno… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We present an experimental study on a terahertz quantum cascade laser (THz QCL) design
that combines both two-well injector and direct-phonon scattering schemes, ie, a so-called …

Extraction-controlled terahertz frequency quantum cascade lasers with a diagonal LO-phonon extraction and injection stage

YJ Han, LH Li, A Grier, L Chen, A Valavanis, J Zhu… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We report an extraction-controlled terahertz (THz)-frequency quantum cascade laser design
in which a diagonal LO-phonon scattering process is used to achieve efficient current …

[HTML][HTML] Split-well direct-phonon terahertz quantum cascade lasers

A Albo, YV Flores, Q Hu, JL Reno - Applied Physics Letters, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We present a so-called “split-well direct-phonon” active region design for terahertz quantum
cascade lasers (THz-QCLs). Lasers based on this scheme profit from both elimination of …

Limiting factors to the temperature performance of THz quantum cascade lasers based on the resonant-phonon depopulation scheme

Y Chassagneux, QJ Wang, SP Khanna… - IEEE Transactions …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We analyze the temperature performance of five terahertz (THz)-frequency quantum
cascade lasers based on a three-quantum-well resonant-phonon depopulation design as a …