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A systematic study of different active regions for the realization of a far-infrared quantum cascade source based on intersubband transitions is presented. In particular, emission from structures based on a vertical transition and fabricated from GaAs/AlGaAs and InGaAs/AlInAs are reported and their temperature dependence systematically compared. The guiding loss of a vertical transition emitter embedded in a double plasmon waveguide is studied as a function of injected current density.
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Faist, J., Rochat, M., Beck, M., Oesterle, U. (2001). Far-infrared intersubband luminescence from quantum cascade sources. In: Miles, R.E., Harrison, P., Lippens, D. (eds) Terahertz Sources and Systems. NATO Science Series, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0824-2_6
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