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THz QCLs - GaAs/AlGaAs

  • THz QCL - Fathololoumi
    Terahertz quantum cascade lasers operating up to ~200 K with optimized oscillator strength and improved injection tunneling
    S. Fathololoumi et al.
    Optics Express 20, 3866 (2012)

GaAs/Al0.15Ga0.85As terahertz quantum cascade lasers with double-phonon resonant depopulation operating up to 172 K R. W. Adams, K. Vijayraghavan, Q. J. Wang, J. Fan, F. Capasso, S. P. Khanna, A. G. Davies, E. H. Linfield, M. A. Belkin Applied Physics Letters 97, 13111 (2010)

GaAs/AlGaAs THz QCL Influence of doping on the performance of terahertz quantum-cascade lasers A. Benz, G. Fasching, A. M. Andrews, M. Martl, K. Unterrainer, T. Roch, W. Schrenk, S. Golka, G. Strasser Applied Physics Letters 90, 101107 (2007)

1.9 THz quantum-cascade lasers with one-well injector S. Kumar, B. S. Williams, Q. Hu Applied Physics Letters 88, 121123 (2006)

Far-infrared (λ ~ 87 μm)? bound-to-continuum quantum-cascade lasers operating up to 90 K G. Scalari, L. Ajili, J. Faist, H. Beere, E. Linfield, D. Ritchie, G. Davies Applied Physics Letters 82, 3165 (2003)

Broadband THz lasing from a photon-phonon quantum cascade structure G. Scalari, M. I. Amanti, C. Walther, R. Terazzi, M. Beck, J. Faist Optics Express 18, 8043 (2010)

THz QCLs - InGaAs/AlGaSb High performance InGaAs/GaAsSb terahertz quantum cascade lasers operating up to 142K C. Deutsch, M. Krall, M. Brandstetter, H. Detz, A. M. Andrews, P. Klang, W. Schrenk, G. Strasser, K. Unterrainer Applied Physics Letters 101, 211117 (2012)


Mid-IR QCLs

InGaAs/AlInAs

GaAs/AlGaAs

  • 300 K operation of a GaAs-based quantum-cascade laser at $\lambda$~$9~{\rm mm}$
    H. Page, C. Becker, A. Robertson, G. Glastre, V. Ortiz, C. Sirtori
    Applied Physics Letters 78, 3529 (2001)

Further examples

  • Simple GaAs/InGaAs Quantum Well Example
    Self-consistent quantum transport theory of carrier capture in heterostructures
    T. Kubis, A. Trellakis, P. Vogl
    Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Nonequilibrium Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductors, M. Saraniti and U. Ravaioli, eds., Chicago, USA, July 25-19, 2005, Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol. 110, pp. 369-372
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