Quasi-periodic distributed feedback laser

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 165-169

  Mahler, Lukas ^a   Tredicucci, Alessandro ^a   Beltram, Fabio ^a   Walther, Christoph ^b   Faist, Jérôme ^b   Beere, Harvey E ^c   Ritchie, David A ^c   Wiersma, Diederik S ^d  

^a INFM   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK DEVICES; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK RESONATORS; ELECTRICALLY PUMPED DEVICES; EMISSION FREQUENCY; QUASI-CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; SELF-SIMILAR SPECTRA; TERAHERTZ QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS;

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; LASER BEAMS; LASER MIRRORS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; RESONATORS;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 77950518469     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.285     Document Type: Article

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