Quantum cascade laser master-oscillator poweramplifier with 1.5 W output power at 300 K

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 16229-16235

  Menzel, Stefan ^a   Diehl, Laurent ^a,b   Pflügl, Christian ^a,b   Goyal, Anish ^c   Wang, Christine ^c   Sanchez, Antonio ^c   Turner, George ^c   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Eos Photonics Inc   (United States)

^c MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

AMPLIFICATION FACTORS; MASTER OSCILLATOR POWER AMPLIFIERS; OUTPUT POWER; SINGLE TRANSVERSE MODES;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 80051732234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.016229     Document Type: Article

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