Abstract
The variety of material combinations available for epitaxial semiconductor heterostructures has made it possible to envision optical devices with new and desirable characteristics. Here I describe two examples proposed recently, in one of which tunable stimulated emission is achieved from a pair of type I coupled quantum wells subject to an electric field. In the other example, a type II heterostructure is presented that could lead to intersubband laser emission.
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Mendez, E. (1993). Novel Electro-Optical Device Structures Based on Quantum Wells. In: Lockwood, D.J., Pinczuk, A. (eds) Optical Phenomena in Semiconductor Structures of Reduced Dimensions. NATO ASI Series, vol 248. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1912-2_32
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