Surface-emitting terahertz quantum cascade laser source based on intracavity difference-frequency generation

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Pflügl, Christian ^a   Belkin, Mikhail A ^a,d   Wang, Qi Jie ^a   Geiser, Markus ^a   Belyanin, Alexey ^b   Fischer, Milan ^c   Wittmann, Andreas ^c   Faist, J́rôme ^c   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENCE LENGTHS; DUAL-WAVELENGTH; FREQUENCY GENERATIONS; FREQUENCY RADIATIONS; INTRACAVITY; MIDINFRARED QUANTUM CASCADES; NONLINEAR SUSCEPTIBILITIES; TERAHERTZ EMISSIONS; TERAHERTZ LIGHT; TERAHERTZ QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; TERAHERTZ SOURCES;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

LASERS;

EID: 54949138037     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3009198     Document Type: Article

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