High average power first-order distributed feedback quantum cascade lasers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1610-1612

  Hofstetter, Daniel ^a   Aellen, Thierry ^a   Beck, Mattias ^a   Faist, Jérôme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER MODES; LASER TUNING; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BRAGG RESONANCE; GAIN CURVE; HIGH AVERAGE OPTICAL OUTPUT POWER; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SINGLE MODE LASER; THRESHOLD CURRENT DENSITY;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 0034469712     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.896323     Document Type: Article

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