Highly power-efficient quantum cascade lasers

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 95-98

  Liu, Peter Q ^a   Hoffman, Anthony J ^a   Escarra, Matthew D ^a   Franz, Kale J ^a   Khurgin, Jacob B ^b   Dikmelik, Yamac ^b   Wang, Xiaojun ^c   Fan, Jen Yu ^c   Gmachl, Claire F ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c ADTECH OPTICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVICE PERFORMANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING; EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATIONS; MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS; MOLECULAR DETECTION; SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT SOURCES; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WALLPLUG EFFICIENCY;

EFFICIENCY; LIGHT SOURCES;

QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

EID: 76449085392     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.262     Document Type: Article

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