Progress in high-performance quantum cascade lasers

Optical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Lyakh, Arkadiy ^a   Maulini, Richard ^a   Tsekoun, Alexei G ^a   Patel, C Kumar N ^a  

^a Pranalytica Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

high power lasers; long term reliability; midinfrared lasers; quantum cascade lasers

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REGIONS; CAVITY LENGTH; CHIP-LEVEL; COMPACT SIZE; ELECTRICAL PUMPING; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH-POWER; INFRARED SPECTRAL; LASER EFFICIENCY; LASER FACETS; LONG-TERM RELIABILITY; MIDINFRARED LASERS; MIDWAVE INFRARED; MULTIWATT; OPTICAL POWER; QUANTUM CASCADES; SYSTEM LEVELS; THERMAL MANAGEMENT; TUNABILITIES; WALLPLUG EFFICIENCY;

PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; RELIABILITY;

INFRARED LASERS;

EID: 79953874324     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3506192     Document Type: Article

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