Continuous-wave and high-power pulsed operation of index-coupled distributed feedback quantum cascade laser at λ≈8.5μm

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1430-1432

  Gmachl, Claire ^a   Capasso, Federico ^a   Faist, Jérome ^a   Hutchinson, Albert L ^a   Tredicucci, Alessandro ^a   Sivco, Deborah L ^a   Baillargeon, James N ^a   Chu, S N George ^a   Cho, Alfred Y ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DESIGN; LIGHT EMISSION; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SILICON WAFERS;

QUANTUM CASCADE DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; SINGLE MODE EMISSION;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 0032025698     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.120585     Document Type: Article

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