Interband cascade lasers

I Vurgaftman, R Weih, M Kamp, JR Meyer… - Journal of Physics D …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the current status of interband cascade lasers (ICLs) emitting in the midwave
infrared (IR). The ICL may be considered the hybrid of a conventional diode laser that …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling techniques for quantum cascade lasers

C Jirauschek, T Kubis - Applied Physics Reviews, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum cascade lasers are unipolar semiconductor lasers covering a wide range of the
infrared and terahertz spectrum. Lasing action is achieved by using optical intersubband …

External cavity quantum cascade laser

A Hugi, R Maulini, J Faist - Semiconductor Science and …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper we review the progress of the development of mid-infrared quantum cascade
lasers (QCLs) operated in an external cavity configuration. We concentrate on QCLs based …

Room temperature continuous wave, monolithic tunable THz sources based on highly efficient mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers

Q Lu, D Wu, S Sengupta, S Slivken, M Razeghi - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
A compact, high power, room temperature continuous wave terahertz source emitting in a
wide frequency range (ν~ 1–5 THz) is of great importance to terahertz system development …

Nano-imaging of intersubband transitions in van der Waals quantum wells

P Schmidt, F Vialla, S Latini, M Massicotte… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The science and applications of electronics and optoelectronics have been driven for
decades by progress in the growth of semiconducting heterostructures. Many applications in …

A density matrix model of transport and radiation in quantum cascade lasers

R Terazzi, J Faist - New journal of Physics, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
A transport model for quantum cascade lasers based on density matrix formalism that
incorporates the laser optical field is confronted with experiment. For a typical mid-infrared …

Intersubband linewidths in quantum cascade laser designs

A Wittmann, Y Bonetti, J Faist, E Gini… - Applied physics …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
We present a model to a priori calculate the temperature and field dependent intersubband
linewidth of the optical transition in quantum cascade laser designs. Besides intra-and …

The progress towards terahertz quantum cascade lasers on silicon substrates

DJ Paul - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A review is presented of work over the last 10 years which has been aimed at trying to
produce a Si‐based THz quantum cascade laser. Potential THz applications and present …

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

E Dupont, S Fathololoumi, ZR Wasilewski… - Journal of Applied …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
A lasing scheme for terahertz quantum cascade lasers, based on consecutive phonon-
photon-phonon emissions per module, is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The …

Role of interface roughness in the transport and lasing characteristics of quantum-cascade lasers

JB Khurgin, Y Dikmelik, PQ Liu, AJ Hoffman… - Applied Physics …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
A density-matrix based theory of transport and lasing in quantum-cascade lasers reveals
that large disparity between luminescent linewidth and broadening of the tunneling …