Laser action by tuning the oscillator strength

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6635, 1997, Pages 777-782

  Faist, Jérôme ^a   Capasso, Federico ^a   Sirtori, Carlo ^a   Sivco, Deborah L ^a   Hutchinson, Albert L ^a   Cho, Alfred Y ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

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ARTICLE; ENERGY; LASER; LUMINESCENCE; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 0030975057     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/42872     Document Type: Article

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