Broadband distributed-feedback quantum cascade laser array operating from 8.0 to 9.8 μm

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 914-916

  Lee, Benjamin G ^a   Zhang, Haifei A ^a   Pflügl, Christian ^a   Diehl, Laurent ^a   Capasso, Federico ^a   Belkin, Mikhail A ^b,c   Fischer, Milan ^d   Wittmann, Andreas ^d   Faist, Jerome ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Distributed feedback (DFB) lasers; Infrared spectroscopy; Mid infrared; Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs); Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

BOUND-TO-CONTINUUM DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED-FEEDBACK; DISTRIBUTED-FEEDBACK (DFB) LASERS; MID-INFRARED; OUTPUT POWER; PEAK INTENSITY; PULSED MODE; QUANTUM CASCADES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; ULTRA-BROADBAND;

HETEROJUNCTIONS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASERS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 67649622682     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2020440     Document Type: Article

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