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Optical gain reduction caused by nonrelevant subbands in narrow-period terahertz quantum cascade laser designs

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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 -

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-25139-9

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  1. JSPS [19K15052, 21H01376]

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This study investigates the impact of high-energy lying non-relevant subbands on terahertz quantum cascade lasers at high temperatures. The findings reveal that these subbands have a minor effect on electron inversion but play a major role in optical gain. This phenomenon is attributed to the presence of leakages caused by sequential resonant tunneling, influenced by the specific features of the design involving phonon wells and periodic length.
The recent designs of terahertz quantum cascade lasers usually employ the short periodic length and also the tall barriers for high-temperature operation. In this work, the effect of high-energy lying non-relevant subbands is studied based on nonequilibrium Green's function formalisms model, demonstrating those subbands are probable to play a minor role on the population inversion, but play a major role on the optical gain at high temperatures. The phenomenon can be ascribed to the appearance of leakages crossing neighboring periods via sequential resonant tunneling, and those leakages are inherently created by the specific features of the two-well configuration in this design that the phonon well should be wide enough for performing the phonon scattering to depopulate the lower-laser subband. The narrower periodic length design can strengthen this inter-period leakage. A parasitic absorption between the first high-lying nonrelevant subbands from two laser wells can closely overlap the gain shape and thus significantly reduce the peak gain.

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