Phase seeding of a terahertz quantum cascade laser

Nature Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Oustinov, Dimitri ^a   Jukam, Nathan ^a   Rungsawang, Rakchanok ^a   Madéo, Julien ^a   Barbieri, Stefano ^b   Filloux, Pascal ^b   Sirtori, Carlo ^b   Marcadet, Xavier ^c   Tignon, Jérôme ^a   Dhillon, Sukhdeep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^c ALCATEL THALES III V LAB   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LASER; QUANTUM CASCADE LASER; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RADIOFREQUENCY; SPECTROSCOPY; TERAHERTZ QUANTUM; TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 78650133547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1068     Document Type: Article

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