Intra-cavity absorption spectroscopy with narrow-ridge microfluidic quantum cascade lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 11262-11271

  Belkin, Mikhail A ^a   Lončar, Marko ^a   Lee, Benjamin G ^a   Pflügl, Christian ^a   Audet, Ross ^a,b   Diehl, Laurent ^a   Capasso, Federico ^a   Bour, David ^c,d   Corzine, Scott ^c,e   Höfler, Gloria ^c,f  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c AGILENT LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d Bridgelux Inc   (United States)

^e INFINERA CORPORATION   (United States)

^f Argos Tech LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMICAL SENSORS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

LASER WAVEGUIDE; MICROFLUIDIC CHAMBER; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; THRESHOLD CURRENT;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 34548391479     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.011262     Document Type: Article

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