Coherent sampling of active mode-locked terahertz quantum cascade lasers and frequency synthesis

Nature Photonics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 306-313

  Barbieri, Stefano ^a,b   Ravaro, Marco ^a,b   Gellie, Pierre ^a,b   Santarelli, Giorgio ^c   Manquest, Christophe ^a,b   Sirtori, Carlo ^a,b   Khanna, Suraj P ^d   Linfield, Edmund H ^d   Davies, A Giles ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79955623604     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2011.49     Document Type: Article

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