• DocumentCode
    2252956
  • Title

    Inefficient coherent carrier transport in quantum cascade lasers at high temperature

  • Author

    Talukder, Muhammad A. ; Menyuk, Curtis R.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We show that coherent carrier transport in quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) decreases as temperature increases due to a corresponding decrease in the quantum coherence time between the injector and active region levels.
  • Keywords
    carrier mobility; high-temperature effects; light coherence; quantum cascade lasers; coherent carrier transport; high-temperature quantum cascade lasers; quantum coherence; thermal effects; Charge carrier density; Coherence; Land surface temperature; Neodymium; Quantum cascade lasers; Temperature dependence;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5951132