Current- and temperature-induced beam steering in 7.8-μm emitting quantum-cascade lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1124-1128

  Hinkov, Borislav ^a   Fuchs, Frank ^a   Bronner, Wolfgang ^a   Köhler, Klaus ^a   Wagner, Joachim ^a  

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

Author keywords

Beam steering; Infrared emission; Lateral modes; Quantum cascade (QC) laser, time resolved spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BEAM-STEERING; BEAM-STEERING EFFECTS; FAR FIELD DISTRIBUTION; FAR-FIELD INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; INFRARED EMISSIONS; INP; LARGE CURRENT; LASING SPECTRUM; LATERAL MODES; OUTPUT BEAM; PULSED MODE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE-INDUCED; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY;

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; PULSED LASERS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; QUANTUM THEORY;

INFRARED LASERS;

EID: 70450136105     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2008.2003499     Document Type: Article

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