Ring-cavity surface-emitting lasers as a building block for tunable and coherent quantum cascade laser arrays

Semiconductor Science and Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Mujagic E ^a   Schwarzer, C ^a   Schrenk, W ^a   Chen, J ^b,c   Gmachl, C ^b   Strasser, G ^a,d  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; DIRECT COUPLING; ELEMENTARY BUILDING BLOCKS; GRATING PERIODS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LIGHT EMITTERS; PHASE-LOCKING; QUANTUM CASCADE STRUCTURES; QUANTUM CASCADES; RADIATION EFFICIENCY; RING CAVITIES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SIDE MODE SUPPRESSION RATIOS; SINGLE MODE EMISSION; SPECTRAL BRIGHTNESS;

LIGHT EMISSION; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 79551702362     PISSN: 02681242     EISSN: 13616641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0268-1242/26/1/014019     Document Type: Article

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