Recent progress in quantum cascade lasers and applications

C Gmachl, F Capasso, DL Sivco… - Reports on progress in …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum cascade (QC') lasers are reviewed. These are semiconductor injection lasers
based on intersubband transitions in a multiple-quantum-well (QW) heterostructure …

Quantum cascade lasers: ultrahigh-speed operation, optical wireless communication, narrow linewidth, and far-infrared emission

F Capasso, R Paiella, R Martini… - IEEE Journal of …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Following an introduction to the history of the invention of the quantum cascade (QC) laser
and of the band-structure engineering advances that have led to laser action over most of …

[图书][B] Semiconductor optics and transport phenomena

W Schäfer, M Wegener - 2013 - books.google.com
Whenever a physicist visits the physics faculty in Dortmund, he/she is bound to hear the
success story of the so-called integrated course, a four-semester introduction to physics …

High power mid‐infrared (λ∼ 5 μm) quantum cascade lasers operating above room temperature

J Faist, F Capasso, C Sirtori, DL Sivco… - Applied Physics …, 1996 - pubs.aip.org
The high power operation of mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers at temperatures up to T
320 K is reported. Gain at high temperature is optimized by a design combining low doping …

300 K operation of a GaAs-based quantum-cascade laser at λ≈ 9 μm

H Page, C Becker, A Robertson, G Glastre… - Applied Physics …, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
The room-temperature 300 K, pulsed mode operation of a GaAs-based quantum-cascade
laser is presented. This has been achieved by the use of a GaAs/Al0. 45Ga0. 55As …

Quantum cascade lasers

F Capasso, C Gmachl, DL Sivco, AY Cho - Physics World, 1999 - iopscience.iop.org
SEMICONDUCTOR lasers are widely used in modern life. In telecommunications they send
signals for thousands of kilometres along optical fibres. In consumer electronics …

Bound-to-continuum and two-phonon resonance, quantum-cascade lasers for high duty cycle, high-temperature operation

J Faist, D Hofstetter, M Beck, T Aellen… - IEEE Journal of …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in quantum-cascade (QC) laser active-region design are reviewed. Based
on a rate equation model of the active region, we show why new gain regions. based on a …

Bound-to-continuum terahertz quantum cascade laser with a single-quantum-well phonon extraction/injection stage

MI Amanti, G Scalari, R Terazzi, M Fischer… - New Journal of …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
A terahertz quantum cascade laser design that combines a wide gain bandwidth, large
photon-driven transport and good high-temperature characteristics is presented. It relies on …

[图书][B] Electronic states and optical transitions in semiconductor heterostructures

FT Vasko, AV Kuznetsov - 1998 - books.google.com
The study of semiconductor heterostructures started more than forty years ago. In the 1980s
this area of research moved to the forefront of semiconduc tor physics, largely due to …

High-temperature operation of distributed feedback quantum-cascade lasers at 5.3 μm

D Hofstetter, M Beck, T Aellen, J Faist - Applied Physics Letters, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
High-temperature operation of a low-threshold 5.3 m quantum-cascade distributed feedback
laser is presented. The emission spectrum was single mode with more than 20 dB side …