Quantum cascade lasers in chemical physics

Chemical Physics Letters

Volumn 487, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 1-18

  Curl, Robert F ^a   Capasso, Federico ^b   Gmachl, Claire ^c   Kosterev, Anatoliy A ^a   McManus, Barry ^d   Lewicki, Rafał ^a   Pusharsky, Michael ^e   Wysocki, Gerard ^c   Tittel, Frank K ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

^d AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^e Daylight Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL PHYSICS; HELIUM DROPLETS; LASER TECHNOLOGIES; MATRIX ISOLATION; MIDINFRARED LASERS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS;

HELIUM; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

INFRARED LASERS;

EID: 76049107052     PISSN: 00092614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2009.12.073     Document Type: Article

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