Room-temperature λ ≈ 2.7 μm quantum cascade laser sources based on intracavity second-harmonic generation

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 691-697

  Vizbaras, Augustinas ^a   Anders, Matthias ^a   Katz, Simeon ^b   Grasse, Christian ^a   Boehm, Gerhard ^a   Meyer, Ralf ^a   Belkin, Mikhail A ^c   Amann, Markus Christian ^a  

^a WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

IIIV semiconductors; laser diodes; nonlinear mixing; quantum cascade lasers

Indexed keywords

EMISSION WAVELENGTH; II-IV SEMICONDUCTORS; INJECTORLESS QUANTUM CASCADE LASER; INTEGRATED PASSIVES; INTRACAVITY SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER DIODES; MW OUTPUT; NONLINEAR MIXING; QUANTUM CASCADES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SHORT-WAVELENGTH;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HARMONIC GENERATION; PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 79954433732     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2011.2109372     Document Type: Article

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