Evaluation of thermal crosstalk in quantum cascade laser arrays

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 375-377

  Soibel, Alexander ^a   Mansour, K ^a   Sivco, D L ^b   Cho, A Y ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Semiconductor laser arrays

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; CROSSTALK; QUANTUM OPTICS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

HEAT MANAGEMENT; QUANTUM CASCADE LASER ARRAYS; THERMAL CROSSTALK;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 33947598515     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.891888     Document Type: Article

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