Gain competition in dual wavelength quantum cascade lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 9900-9908

  Geiser, Markus ^a,d   Pflügl, Christian ^a   Belyanin, Alexey ^b   Wang, Qi Jie ^a   Yu, Nanfang ^a   Edamura, Tadanaka ^c   Yamanishi, Masamichi ^c   Kan, Hirofumi ^c   Fischer, Milan ^d   Wittmann, Andreas ^d   Faist, Jérôme ^d   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Central Research Laboratory   (Japan)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; INFRARED DEVICES; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

DUAL WAVELENGTH; GAIN COMPETITION; HIGHER ORDER; LASER ACTION; LATERAL MODES; MID-INFRARED QUANTUM CASCADE; MIDINFRARED; MODE INTERACTIONS; POPULATION INVERSIONS; RATE-EQUATION MODELS; THRESHOLD CURRENTS;

INFRARED LASERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; LIGHT; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUANTUM THEORY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 77952703005     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.009900     Document Type: Article

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