A multiwavelength semiconductor laser

Nature

Volumn 396, Issue 6709, 1998, Pages 350-353

  Tredicucci, Alessandro ^a   Gmachl, Claire ^a   Capasso, Federico ^a   Sivco, Deborah L ^a   Hutchinson, Albert L ^a   Cho, Alfred Y ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; RESONATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SUPERLATTICES; TRACE ANALYSIS;

ELECTRON RELAXATION; ELECTRONIC STATE; MID INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; MULTISECTION INJECTION DEVICES; MULTIWAVELENGTH SEMICONDUCTOR LASER; OPTICAL TRANSITIONS; SUPERLATTICES LAYERED STRUCTURE; TRACE GAS ANALYSIS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ARTICLE; GAS ANALYSIS; GAS MIXING; LASER; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; OPTICAL ROTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

EID: 0032569907     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/24585     Document Type: Article

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