Single-mode, narrow-linewidth external cavity quantum cascade laser through optical feedback from a partial-reflector

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 26037-26045

  Cendejas, Richard A ^a   Phillips, Mark C ^b   Myers, Tanya L ^b   Taubman, Matthew S ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEWIDTH; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; REFLECTION;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK; EXTERNAL CAVITY; FABRY-PEROT QC LASERS; MULTIMODES; OPTICAL OUTPUT; QC LASERS; SINGLE MODE; TUNING RANGES;

FEEDBACK;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK; LASERS; LENSES; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 78650070279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.026037     Document Type: Article

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