Low divergence Terahertz photonic-wire laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 6390-6395

  Amanti, Maria I ^a   Scalari, Giacomo ^a   Castellano, Fabrizio ^a   Beck, Mattias ^a   Faist, Jerome ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE MODES; CONTINUOUS WAVE OPERATION; LOW DIVERGENCE; MW OUTPUT; NARROW BEAMS; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; OUTPUT POWER; POWER CONSUMPTION; QUANTUM CASCADES; SINGLE FREQUENCY; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; STRUCTURE-BASED; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ PHOTONICS; THIRD ORDER;

WIRE;

ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; PHOTON; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; PHOTONS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 77949639949     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006390     Document Type: Article

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