[HTML][HTML] High-temperature terahertz quantum cascade lasers

B Wen, D Ban - Progress in Quantum Electronics, 2021 - Elsevier
The terahertz (THz) quantum cascade laser (QCL), first demonstrated in 2002, is among the
most promising radiation sources in the THz region owing to its high output power and broad …

Physics and technology of Terahertz quantum cascade lasers

MS Vitiello, A Tredicucci - Advances in physics: X, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Even though already in the seventies, right after the invention of the quantum cascade laser
(QCL) concept, it was argued that this device could be operated in the THz (far-infrared) …

Phenomenological position and energy resolving Lindblad approach to quantum kinetics

G Kiršanskas, M Franckié, A Wacker - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
A general theoretical approach to study the quantum kinetics in a system coupled to a bath
is proposed. Starting with the microscopic interaction, a Lindblad master equation is …

Two-well quantum cascade laser optimization by non-equilibrium Green's function modelling

M Franckié, L Bosco, M Beck, C Bonzon… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We present a two-quantum well THz intersubband laser operating up to 192 K. The structure
has been optimized using non-equilibrium Green's function model. The result of this …

Comparative analysis of quantum cascade laser modeling based on density matrices and non-equilibrium Green's functions

M Lindskog, JM Wolf, V Trinite, V Liverini, J Faist… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We study the operation of an 8.5 μm quantum cascade laser based on GaInAs/AlInAs lattice
matched to InP using three different simulation models based on density matrix (DM) and …

[HTML][HTML] THz time-domain characterization of amplifying quantum-cascade metasurface

Y Shen, AD Kim, M Shahili, CA Curwen… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
An amplifying quantum-cascade (QC) metasurface, the key component of the QC vertical-
external-cavity surface-emitting-laser (VECSEL), is studied as a function of injected current …

Impact of interface roughness distributions on the operation of quantum cascade lasers

M Franckié, DO Winge, J Wolf, V Liverini, E Dupont… - Optics …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We study the impact of interface roughness on the operation of mid-IR and THz quantum
cascade lasers. Particular emphasis is given towards the differences between the Gaussian …

[HTML][HTML] Sensitive dependence of the linewidth enhancement factor on electronic quantum effects in quantum cascade lasers

M Franckié, M Bertrand, J Faist - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The linewidth enhancement factor (LEF) describes the coupling between amplitude and
phase fluctuations in a semiconductor laser and has recently been shown to be a crucial …

Simulating terahertz quantum cascade lasers: Trends from samples from different labs

DO Winge, M Franckie, A Wacker - Journal of Applied Physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We present a systematic comparison of the results from our non-equilibrium Green's function
formalism with a large number of AlGaAs-GaAs terahertz quantum cascade lasers …

Temperature dependences of the threshold current and output power of a quantum-cascade laser emitting at 3.3 THz

RA Khabibullin, NV Shchavruk, DS Ponomarev… - Semiconductors, 2018 - Springer
The active region of a THz (terahertz) quantum-cascade laser based on three tunnel-
coupled GaAs/Al 0.15 Ga 0.85 As quantum wells with a resonance-phonon depopulation …