Widely tunable mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers using sampled grating reflectors

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 23339-23348

  Mansuripur, Tobias S ^a   Menzel, Stefan ^a   Blanchard, Romain ^a   Diehl, Laurent ^b   Pflügl, Christian ^b   Huang, Yong ^c   Ryou, Jae Hyun ^c   Dupuis, Russell D ^c   Loncar, Marko ^a   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Eos Photonics   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

MID-INFRARED QUANTUM CASCADE; OPTICAL OUTPUT POWER; PULSED QUANTUM CASCADE; SAMPLED GRATINGS; SAMPLED-GRATING DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; SINGLE MODE; WIDELY TUNABLE;

QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; QUANTUM THEORY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; LENSES; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84867300995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.023339     Document Type: Article

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