Spectral beam combining of quantum cascade lasers in an external cavity

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7325, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Hugger, S ^a   Fuchs, F ^a   Aidam, R ^a   Bronner, W ^a   Loesch, R ^a   Yang, Q ^a   Schulz, N ^a   Wagnera, J ^a   Romasew, E ^b   Raab, M ^b   Tholl, H D ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SOLID STATE PHYSICS IAF   (Germany)

^b Diehl BGT Defence GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Directed infrared counter measures; External cavity; Infrared semiconductor lasers; Laser beam combining; Power scaling; Quantum cascade lasers

Indexed keywords

DIRECTED INFRARED COUNTER MEASURES; EXTERNAL CAVITY; INFRARED SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; LASER BEAM COMBINING; POWER SCALING;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; FIBER LASERS; LASER BEAMS; LASERS; MIRRORS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; QUANTUM THEORY;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 69949142041     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.818505     Document Type: Conference Paper

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