Recent advances in compact broadly tunable external-cavity quantum cascade lasers (ECqcL)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7319, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Day, Timothy ^a   Weida, Miles ^a   Arnone, David ^a   Pushkarsky, Michael ^a  

^a Daylight Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

ECicL; ECqcL; External cavity; Interband cascade laser; Mid infrared; Quantum cascade laser; Semiconductor laser; Sensors; Spectroscopy; Tunable laser

Indexed keywords

ECICL; ECQCL; EXTERNAL CAVITY; INTERBAND CASCADE LASER; MID-INFRARED; TUNABLE LASER;

CHEMICAL SENSORS; CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER TUNING; LASERS; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; PACKAGING MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TECHNOLOGY;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 69549108432     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.818978     Document Type: Conference Paper

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