Stability of Pulse Emission and Enhancement of Intracavity Second-Harmonic Generation in Self-Mode-Locked Quantum Cascade Lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 197-204

  Soibel, Alexander ^a   Capasso, Federico ^b   Gmachl, Claire ^a   Peabody, Milton L ^a   Sergent, A Michael ^a   Paiella, Roberto ^c   Sivco, Deborah L ^a   Cho, Alfred Y ^a   Liu, H C ^d  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mode locked lasers; Nonlinear optics; Pulse generation; Pulsed laser; Semiconductor lasers; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BANDPASS FILTERS; CRYSTALS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HETERODYNING; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

MODE-LOCKED LASERS; PULSE GENERATION; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 1642602825     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2003.823036     Document Type: Article

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