Room temperature terahertz quantum cascade laser source based on intracavity difference-frequency generation

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 20, 2008, Pages

  Belkin, Mikhail A ^a   Capasso, Federico ^a   Xie, Feng ^b   Belyanin, Alexey ^b   Fischer, Milan ^c   Wittmann, Andreas ^c   Faist, J́rôme ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WAVELENGTH;

FREQUENCY MIXING; NONLINEAR SUSCEPTIBILITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

EID: 44349116688     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2919051     Document Type: Article

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