Low voltage-defect quantum cascade laser with heterogeneous injector regions

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 15818-15823

  Hoffman, Anthony J ^a   Schartner, Stephan ^a,b   Howard, Scott S ^a   Franz, Kale J ^a   Towner, Fred ^c   Gmachl, Ciaire ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c Maxion Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIUM COMPOUNDS; REFLECTION; WAVELENGTH;

HETEROGENEOUS INJECTOR; QUANTUM CASCADE LASER;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 36749096229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.015818     Document Type: Article

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