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A quantum cascade laser with coherent electron transport on two-photon transitions in a three-barrier heterostructure

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An analytical solution of the Schrödinger equation describing resonance transitions between three quantum levels in a strong high-frequency electric field has been obtained for asymmetric three-barrier structures with high thin barriers. It is established that most electrons that arrive at the upper resonance level can generate two photons and leave the structure via the lower level without intermediate interaction with phonons, at a quantum efficiency reaching a limiting value of 160%.

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  1. ISTOK Research and Production Corporation (State Unitary Enterprise), Fryazino, Moscow oblast, 141190, Russia

    E. I. Golant, A. A. Kapralova, V. M. Lukashin & A. B. Pashkovskiĭ

  2. Research Institute for Microelectronics and Information-Measurement Techniques, Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (Technical University), Moscow, 109028, Russia

    E. I. Golant, A. A. Kapralova, V. M. Lukashin & A. B. Pashkovskiĭ

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Original Russian Text © E.I. Golant, A.A. Kapralova, V.M. Lukashin, A.B. Pashkovskiĭ, 2009, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 8, pp. 48–53.

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Golant, E.I., Kapralova, A.A., Lukashin, V.M. et al. A quantum cascade laser with coherent electron transport on two-photon transitions in a three-barrier heterostructure. Tech. Phys. Lett. 35, 368–370 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785009040245

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