Extending the wavelength range of single emitter diode lasers for medical and sensing applications: 12xx-nm quantum dots, 2000-nm wells, > 5000-nm cascade lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6456, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Crump, Paul ^a   Patterson, Steve ^a   Elim, Sandrio ^a   Zhang, Shiguo ^a   Bougher, Mike ^a   Patterson, Jason ^a   Das, Suhit ^a   Dong, Weimin ^a   Grimshaw, Mike ^a   Wang, Jun ^a   Wise, Damian ^a   DeFranza, Mark ^a   Bell, Jake ^a   Farmer, Jason ^a   DeVito, Mark ^a   Martinsen, Rob ^a   Kovsh, Alexey ^b   Toor, Fatima ^c   Gmachl, Claire F ^c  

^a NLIGHT CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NL Nanosemiconductor GmbH   (Germany)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SUBSTRATES; WAVELENGTH;

ATMOSPHERIC APPLICATIONS; HIGH POWER DENSITIES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 34247399925     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.706177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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