Experimental investigation of high-frequency noise and optical feedback effects using a 9.7 μm continuous-wave distributed-feedback quantum-cascade laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 947-953

  Weidmann, Damien ^a   Smith, Kevin ^a   Ellison, Brian ^a  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; OPTICAL FEEDBACK; OPTIMIZATION; RESONANCE; WAVE EFFECTS;

INTENSE RESONANCE PEAKS; NOISE CHARACTERISTICS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE;

SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EID: 33947523701     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.000947     Document Type: Article

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