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Design guidelines for efficient thermal management of mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers

Chaparala et al., 2011

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5543524004182141413
Author
Chaparala S
Xie F
Caneau C
Zah C
Hughes L
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IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology

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Semiconductor quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) that emit mid-infrared light in the wavelength range 4-9 μm are unipolar and the laser emission is due to intersubband transitions in a repeated stack of multiple quantum wells. The thermal management of these …
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