Emission and propagation properties of midinfrared quantum cascade lasers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 306-308

  Krishnaswami, Kannan ^a   Bernacki, Bruce E ^a   Cannon, Bret D ^a   Hô, Nicolas ^a   Anheier, Norman C ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser beams; Laser measurements; Optical propagation; Quantum well lasers; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955231473     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.915635     Document Type: Article

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