High-performance continuous-wave room temperature 4.0-μm quantum cascade lasers with single-facet optical emission exceeding 2 W

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 44, 2010, Pages 18799-18802

  Lyakh, A ^a   Maulini, R ^a   Tsekoun, A ^a   Go, R ^a   Von Der Porten, S ^a   Pflugl C ^b   Diehl, L ^b   Capasso, Federico ^b   Patel, C Kumar N ^a,c  

^a Pranalytica Inc   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

High power; Midinfrared

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM;

CHEMICAL REACTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CASCADE LASER; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

EID: 78650490584     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1013250107     Document Type: Article

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