Broadly-tunable external cavity quantum-cascade lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6010, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Maulini, Richard ^a   Yarekha, Dmitri A ^a,c   Bulliard, Jean Marc ^a   Beck, Mattias ^a   Giovannini, Marcella ^a   Faist, Jérôme ^a   Gini, Emilio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

External cavity; Infrared spectroscopy; Quantum cascade lasers; Tunable laser

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FEEDBACK; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; QUANTUM THEORY;

EXTERNAL CAVITY; QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS; TUNABLE LASERS;

LASERS;

EID: 33644772562     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.630690     Document Type: Conference Paper

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