Third harmonic generation in a Quantum Cascade laser with monolithically integrated resonant optical nonlinearity

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2972-2976

  Mosely, Trinesha S ^a,c   Belyanin, Alexey ^b   Gmachl, Claire ^a,d   Sivco, Deborah L ^a   Peabody, Milton L ^a   Cho, Alfred Y ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTICS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM OPTICS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

NONLINEAR OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL GENERATION; THIRD HARMONIC GENERATION;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 4644319997     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.002972     Document Type: Article

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