Single mode quantum cascade lasers with shallow-etched distributed Bragg reflector

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3890-3897

  Fuchs, Peter ^a   Friedl, Jochen ^b   Höfling, Sven ^b   Koeth, Johannes ^a   Forchel, Alfred ^b   Worschech, Lukas ^b   Kamp, Martin ^b  

^a NANOPLUS NANOSYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES GMBH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; GAS ABSORPTION;

ABSORPTION EXPERIMENTS; FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE; PEAK OUTPUT POWER; PELTIER TEMPERATURE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SINGLE MODE; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; TEMPERATURE TUNING; THERMAL CROSSTALK;

QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

EID: 84857277991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.003890     Document Type: Article

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