Widely tunable high-power external cavity quantum cascade laser operating in continuous-wave at room temperature

Electronics Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 107-108

  Maulini, R ^a   Dunayevskiy, I ^a   Lyakh, A ^a   Tsekoun, A ^a   Patel, C K N ^a,c   Diehl, L ^b   Pflugl C ^b   Capasso, F ^b  

^a Pranalytica Inc   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIP TEMPERATURE; EXTERNAL CAVITY (EC); GAIN PEAKS; GAIN-BANDWIDTH (GBW); PLUG EFFICIENCY; POWER OUTPUTS; QUANTUM CASCADE (QC); ROOM-TEMPERATURE (RT); SINGLE FREQUENCY OPERATION;

QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

EID: 58449084907     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20093057     Document Type: Article

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