Electrically switching transverse modes in high power THz quantum cascade lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 10036-10048

  Fathololoumi, S ^a,b   Dupont, E ^a   Razavipour, S G ^b   Laframboise, S R ^a   Delage, A ^a   Wasilewski, Z R ^a   Bezinger, A ^a   Rafi, G Z ^b   Safavi Naeini, S ^b   Ban, D ^b   Liu, H C ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

BEAM PATTERN; BIAS CONDITIONS; CURRENT INJECTIONS; EMISSION ANGLE; FAR FIELD MEASUREMENT; FAR-FIELD PATTERNS; HIGH CURRENTS; HIGH-POWER; LASING OPERATION; LASING SPECTRUM; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; NEAR-FIELD; SIMPLE MODEL; THZ QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; TRANSVERSE MODE; TWO-DIMENSION;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 77952720642     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.010036     Document Type: Article

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