Heterogeneous high-performance quantum-cascade laser sources for broad-band tuning

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1083-1088

  Wittmann, A ^a   Hugi, A ^a   Gini, E ^a   Hoyler, N ^b   Faist, J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Broad band tuning; Buried heterostructure (BH); Continuous wave (CW); Distributed feedback (DFB); External cavity (EC); Heterogeneous active region; Laser photoacoustic spectroscopy (LPAS); Quantum cascade (QC) laser

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REGIONS; BROAD BANDS; BURIED HETEROSTRUCTURES; CONTINUOUS WAVES; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK; EXTERNAL CAVITY; LASER PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; QUANTUM THEORY;

TUNING;

EID: 67649572581     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2008.2001928     Document Type: Article

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