Delayed rapid passage and transient gain signals generated using a chirped 8 m quantum cascade laser

Journal of Modern Optics

Volumn 55, Issue 19-20, 2008, Pages 3293-3303

  Duxbury, Geoffrey ^a   Langford, Nigel ^a   Hay, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chirped lasers; Infrared spectroscopy; Maxwell Bloch equations; Nonlinear optics; Quantum cascade lasers; Rapid passage

Indexed keywords

ACETYLENE; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; ELECTRON OPTICS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; GAS ABSORPTION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASERS; LIGHTING; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CHIRP RATES; CHIRPED LASERS; CONSTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCES; GAS CELLS; GAS PRESSURES; GASEOUS MEDIUMS; INCIDENT LASERS; LONG PATHS; MAXWELL-BLOCH EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; OPTICAL DENSITIES; RAPID PASSAGE; REORIENTATION TIMES; TRANSIENT GAINS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 57649211739     PISSN: 09500340     EISSN: 13623044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500340802315321     Document Type: Conference Paper

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