Wavefront engineering for mid-infrared and terahertz quantum cascade lasers [Invited]

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Yu, Nanfang ^a   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DETECTION; DEMULTIPLEXING; INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL RADAR; PLASMONS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; WAVEFRONTS;

BEAM COLLIMATION; BEAM-SHAPING; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; HETERODYNE DETECTION; LASER WAVEGUIDES; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; LOW LOSS; MIDINFRARED; MODEL SYSTEM; MULTI-BEAM; NEAR INFRARED; OPERATING PRINCIPLES; PASSIVE OPTICAL DEVICES; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC STRUCTURES; PLASMONICS; POLARITONS; POLARIZATION CONTROL; QUALITY PROBLEMS; QUANTUM DESIGNS; SPATIAL WAVELENGTHS; SURFACE PLASMONS; TERAHERTZ; TERAHERTZ QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS;

INFRARED LASERS;

EID: 78149363534     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.000B18     Document Type: Article

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