Journal
OPTICAL AND QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
Volume 54, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11082-022-03742-4
Keywords
Quantum cascade laser; LO phonon scattering; Anisotropy of dielectric permittivity
Funding
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (Republic of Serbia)
- Multi-Scale Modeling of Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser Active Regions, Multilateral scientific and technological cooperation in the Danube region 2020-2021 [337-00-00322/2019-09/221]
- DEMETRA: Development of high-performance mid-IR/THz quantum cascade lasers for advanced applications, Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, Serbian Science and Diaspora Collaboration Programme: Knowledge Exchange Vouchers [6436915]
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The article describes an elaborate model for calculating optical gain in quantum cascade lasers. This model takes into account the anisotropic nature of the dielectric constant in the complex layered quantum-well structure. The anisotropy affects the electron-longitudinal phonon scattering rates, which in turn affects the carrier distribution and population inversion in the active region of the laser.
We describe an elaborate model for calculation of optical gain in quantum cascade laser (QCL) taking into account that such complex layered quantum-well based structure should be viewed as an anisotropic material in terms of dielectric constant. The layering induced anisotropy leads to substantial modifications of electron-longitudinal (LO) phonon scattering rates owing to the occurrence of additional resonant frequencies for LO phonons, each affecting the totals scattering rate between relevant subbands. This clearly impacts the carrier distribution between the subbands and alters the degree of population inversion in the active region of a QCL, in comparison to the results of an isotropic permittivity model, as illustrated by our numerical example.
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