High power, continuous-wave, quantum cascade lasers for MWIR and LWIR applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6127, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Slivken, S ^a   Evans, A ^a   Yu, J S ^a   Darvish, S R ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Far infrared; Gas Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy; Intersubband Laser; Mid infrared; Quantum Cascade Laser; Strain Balanced Epitaxy

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER APPLICATIONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FAR-INFRARED; GAS SOURCE MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; INTERSUBBAND LASERS; MID-INFRARED; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; STRAIN-BALANCED EPITAXY;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 33646749907     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.659625     Document Type: Conference Paper

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