Key Issues for Mid Infrared Emission

21/07/2000


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Key Issues for Mid Infrared Emission

Overview

Applications of MIR

Routes for Mid-IR emission

Routes for Mid-IR emission

Interband recombination

Auger enhancement in MIR

Auger Theory

Auger suppression in III-Vs

Auger suppression with strain

Hg0.795Cd0.205Te Results vs T

InGaSb results vs composition

New materials: InSb1-xNx

InSbN lifetime

Intraband recombination

3-level lasing scheme

The Quantum Cascade laser

Phonon scattering rate

Phonon scattering in GaAs

Bandstructure Engineering QCLs

Bandstructure Engineering QCLs

Comparison of rates

Suppression of phonon scattering

Conclusions

Author: Ben Murdin

Email: b.murdin@surrey.ac.uk

Home Page: http://www.ph.surrey.ac.uk/ODM/b.murdin

Other information:
slides for an invited lecture given at the Royal Society 19-20/7/2000