Time-domain upconversion measurements of group-velocity dispersion in quantum cascade lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 15898-15907

  Choi, Hyunyong ^a   Diehl, Laurent ^b   Capasso, Federico ^b   Bour, David ^c,d   Corzine, Scott ^c,e   Zhu, Jintian ^c   Höfler, Gloria ^c,f   Norris, Theodore B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HARVARD 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

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; LASER RESONATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

GAIN DISPERSION; PEAK EMISSION WAVELENGTH; PULSE PROPAGATION; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SUM-FREQUENCY GENERATION; WAVEGUIDE DISPERSION;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 36749006618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.015898     Document Type: Article

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