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Plot of the optimum THz photon frequency in (a) and its corresponding efficiency in (b), as functions of cavity length, Lc, and average electronic lifetime, \({\tau }_{e}\). The values of Lc are taken from ref.29. All the parameters are kept the same as those in Fig. 4.