Effect of oscillator strength and intermediate resonance on the performance of resonant phonon-based terahertz quantum cascade lasers
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of resonant phonon-based terahertz quantum cascade lasers S. Fathololoumi, E. Dupont, Z. R. Wasilewski, C. W. I. Chan, S. G. Razavipour, S. R. Laframboise, Shengxi Huang, Q. Hu, D. Ban, and H. C. Liu National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario K1A0R6, Canada Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave W., Waterloo, Ontario N2L3G1, Canada Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA Key Laboratory of Artificial Structures and Quantum Control, Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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