Broadband, continuous, and fine-tune properties of external-cavity thermoelectric-stabilized mid-infrared quantum-cascade lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 4877-4882

  Peng, Chuan ^a   Luo, Guipeng ^a   Le, Han Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; GAS ABSORPTION; LASER TUNING;

QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0042788105     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.004877     Document Type: Article

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