High-speed modulation and free-space optical audio/video transmission using quantum cascade lasers

Electronics Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 191-193

  Martini, R ^a,b   Gmachl, C ^a   Falciglia, J ^b   Curti, F G ^b   Bethea, C G ^a   Capasso, F ^a   Whittaker, E A ^b   Paiella, R ^a   Tredicucci, A ^a   Hutchinson, A L ^a   Sivco, D L ^a   Cho, A Y ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL LINKS;

QUANTUM CASCADE (QC) LASERS;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 0003303749     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20010102     Document Type: Article

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