External cavity quantum-cascade laser tunable from 8.2 to 10.4 μm using a gain element with a heterogeneous cascade

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 20, 2006, Pages

  Maulini, Richard ^a   Mohan, Arun ^a   Giovannini, Marcella ^a   Faist, J́rôme ^a   Gini, Emilio ^b  

^a Universite de Neuchatel Institut de Physique   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAIN CONTROL; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LASER BEAMS; TUNING;

HETEROGENEOUS CASCADE; LITTROW CONFIGURATION; QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 33646875708     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2205183     Document Type: Article

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