Intensity noise properties of quantum cascade lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2032-2039

  Gensty, Tobias ^a   Elsäßer, Wolfgang ^a   Mann, Christian ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SOLID STATE PHYSICS IAF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTIC NOISE; BANDWIDTH; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; LIGHT SOURCES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

FLUCTUATIONS; INTRARED AND FAR-INFRARED LASERS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; RELAXATIONS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 17444402911     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.002032     Document Type: Article

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