Mode-locked pulses from mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 12929-12943

  Wang, Christine Y ^a   Kuznetsova, Lyuba ^a   Gkortsas, V M ^b   Diehl, L ^a   Kartner F X ^b   Belkin, M A ^a   Belyanin, A ^c   Li, X ^a   Ham, D ^a   Schneider, H ^d   Grant, P ^e   Song, C Y ^e   Haffouz, S ^e   Wasilewski, Z R ^e   Liu, H C ^e   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MAXWELL EQUATIONS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; QUANTUM WELL INFRARED PHOTODETECTORS; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

INTERFEROMETRIC AUTOCORRELATION; MAXWELL-BLOCH EQUATION; MID-INFRARED QUANTUM CASCADE; MIDINFRARED; MODE-LOCKED PULSE; SECOND ORDERS; SPATIAL HOLE BURNING; TWO-LEVEL SYSTEM;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 67749099613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.012929     Document Type: Article

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