Surface emission from episide-down short distributed-feedback quantum cascade lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 11920-11929

  Schartner, Stephan ^a   Austerer, Maximilian ^a   Schrenk, Werner ^a   Andrews, Aaron Maxwell ^a   Klang, Pavel ^a   Strasser, Gottfried ^a,b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONDING; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; WAVEGUIDES;

CONTINUOUS SURFACE; COUPLING COEFFICIENT; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK; GRATING FORMATION; SECOND ORDER GRATINGS; SIDE MODE SUPPRESSION RATIOS; THERMO COMPRESSION BONDING;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 49149088629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.011920     Document Type: Article

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