Recent progress in transition-metal-doped II-VI Mid-IR lasers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 810-821

  Mirov, Sergey B ^a   Fedorov, Vladimir V ^a   Moskalev, Igor S ^a   Martyshkin, Dmitri V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Doped quantum dots; Laser; Middle infrared (mid IR), tunable

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; LASER ABLATION; LUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TRANSITION METALS;

DOPED QUANTUM DOTS; MULTILINE LASING; SPECTRAL RANGE;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 34250781701     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.896634     Document Type: Article

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