High-power long-wavelength room-temperature MOVPE-grown quantum cascade lasers with air-semiconductor waveguide

Electronics Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 525-527

  Wang, Q J ^a   Pflugl C ^a   Diehl, L ^a   Capasso, F ^a   Furuta, S ^b   Kan, H ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT EMISSION; METALLORGANIC VAPOR PHASE EPITAXY; OPTICAL LOSSES; WAVELENGTH;

AIR-SEMICONDUCTOR INTERFACE; OPTICAL OVERLAP FACTOR; WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURES;

QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

EID: 42149158311     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20080543     Document Type: Article

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