Ultrafast Rabi flopping and coherent pulse propagation in a quantum cascade laser

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 706-710

  Choi, Hyunyong ^a,b   Gkortsas, Vasileios Marios ^c   Diehl, Laurent ^d   Bour, David ^e   Corzine, Scott ^e   Zhu, Jintian ^e   Höfler, Gloria ^e   Capasso, Federico ^d   Kärtner, Franz X ^c   Norris, Theodore B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e AGILENT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT MANIPULATION; COHERENT OSCILLATIONS; PHASE RELATIONSHIPS; PULSE PROPAGATION; SEMICONDUCTOR ABSORBERS; SHORT PULSE GENERATION; SINGLE QUANTUM DOT; ULTRASHORT PULSE GENERATION;

PULSE GENERATORS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 77957559376     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.205     Document Type: Article

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