Suppression of carrier leakage in 4.8 [micrometre] - Emitting quantum cascade lasers

In this work we show that by using both deep quantum wells and tall barriers in the active regions of quantum cascade (QC)-laser structures and by tapering the conduction-band edge of both injector an extractor regions one can significantly reduce the leakage of the injected carriers. Threshold-curr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kumar, Sushil, Botez, Dan, Shin, J. C., Mawst, Luke J., Vurgaftman, I., Meyer, Jerry R.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58474