Dispersion-compensated wavelength beam combining of quantum-cascade-laser arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 26725-26732

  Goyal, Anish K ^a   Spencer, Melissa ^a   Shatrovoy, Oleg ^a   Lee, Benjamin G ^b,c   Diehl, Laurent ^b,d   Pfluegl, Christian ^b,d   Sanchez, Antonio ^a   Capasso, Federico ^b  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Eos Photonics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

BEAM DIVERGENCE; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK; MULTIWAVELENGTH ARRAY; NONLINEAR DISPERSION; POINTING ERRORS; POLYMER SHEET; RETRO REFLECTOR; SINGLE GRATING; SINGLE LASERS; WAVELENGTH BEAM; WAVELENGTH BEAM COMBINING;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84555177266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.026725     Document Type: Article

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