Surface emitting terahertz quantum cascade laser with a double-metal waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 11672-11680

  Fan, Jonathan A ^a   Belkin, Mikhail A ^a   Capasso, Federico ^a   Khanna, Suraj ^b   Lachab, Mohamed ^b   Davies, A Giles ^b   Linfield, Edmund H ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

DOUBLE METAL WAVEGUIDES; LASER RIDGE; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SURFACE EMISSION;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 34248550218     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.011672     Document Type: Article

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