Beam combining of quantum cascade laser arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 16216-16224

  Lee, Benjamin G ^a   Kansky, Jan ^b   Goyal, Anish K ^b   Pflügl, Christian ^a   Diehl, Laurent ^a   Belkin, Mikhail A ^a   Sanchez, Antonio ^b   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; REMOTE SENSING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

BEAM COMBINING; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK; FAR FIELD DIVERGENCE; ISO-PROPANOLS; LASER ARRAYS; QUALITY PRODUCT; WAVELENGTH BEAM; WAVELENGTH BEAM COMBINING;

QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

EID: 69949106027     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.016216     Document Type: Article

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