Measurements of the α factor of a distributed-feedback quantum cascade laser by an optical feedback self-mixing technique

Optics Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 2574-2576

  von Staden, Jens ^a   Gensty, Tobias ^a   Elsäβer, Wolfgang ^a   Giuliani, Guido ^b   Mann, Christian ^c  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INJECTION CURRENT; OPTICAL FEEDBACK; QUANTUM CASCADE LASER (QCL); SELF MIXING TECHNIQUE;

DETECTORS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; INTERFEROMETRY; PARTICLE BEAM INJECTION; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 33750529565     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.31.002574     Document Type: Article

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