High-speed all-optical modulation of a standard quantum cascade laser by front facet illumination

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Chen, Gang ^a   Bethea, Clyde G ^a   Martini, Rainer ^a   Grant, P D ^b   Dudek, R ^b   Liu, H C ^b  

^a Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; EXPERIMENTAL SCHEME; HIGH-POWER; HIGH-SPEED; HIGH-SPEED MODULATION; INTER-BAND TRANSITION; INTER-SUBBAND; MIDINFRARED; MODULATION DEPTH; NONRESONANT; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER; TRANSIENT TIME;

CORUNDUM; LASERS; LIGHT MODULATION; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 70249107460     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3223597     Document Type: Article

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