Summary: INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS PUBLISHING JOURNAL OF OPTICS B: QUANTUM AND SEMICLASSICAL OPTICS
J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 6 (2004) S771­S774 PII: S1464-4266(04)72039-X
Scaling of the photon noise in
semiconductor cascade lasers
Farhan Rana1
, Peter Mayer2
and Rajeev J Ram2
1
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853,
USA
2
Research Laboratory for Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
MA 02139, USA
E-mail: farhan.rana@cornell.edu
Received 17 November 2003, accepted for publication 6 February 2004
Published 27 July 2004
Online at stacks.iop.org/JOptB/6/S771
doi:10.1088/1464-4266/6/8/022
Abstract
Semiconductor cascade lasers have larger photon noise than conventional

Source: Afshari, Ehsan - School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University

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