Observing the intrinsic linewidth of a quantum-cascade laser: Beyond the schawlow-townes limit

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Bartalini, S ^a,b   Borri, S ^a,b   Cancio, P ^a,b   Castrillo, A ^c   Galli, I ^a,b   Giusfredi, G ^a,b   Mazzotti, D ^a,b   Gianfrani, L ^c   De Natale, P ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c CNISM Unità Napoli 2   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIMIT SETS; LINE BROADENING; MIDINFRARED; NOISE SPECTRAL DENSITY; RADIATIVE LIFETIME;

LASER THEORY; SPECTRAL DENSITY;

QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

EID: 77649093480     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.083904     Document Type: Article

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