Quantum cascade lasers with integrated plasmonic antenna-array collimators

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 19447-19461

  Yu, Nanfang ^a   Blanchard, Romain ^a   Fan, Jonathan ^a   Wang, Qi Jie ^a   Pflügl, Christian ^a   Diehl, Laurent ^a   Edamura, Tadataka ^b   Yamanishi, Masamichi ^b   Kan, Hirofumi ^b   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; WAVEGUIDES;

BEAM DIVERGENCE ANGLES; BURIED HETEROSTRUCTURES; FABRICATED DEVICE; LASER WAVEGUIDES; METALLIC APERTURES; POWER THROUGHPUT; TEMPERATURE PERFORMANCE; WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 57149135989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.019447     Document Type: Article

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