High performance quantum cascade lasers

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 31-37

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

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

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EID: 0039374658     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.10.10.000031     Document Type: Article

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