High performance terahertz quantum cascade laser sources based on intracavity difference frequency generation

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 968-973

  Lu, Q Y ^a   Bandyopadhyay, N ^a   Slivken, S ^a   Bai, Y ^a   Razeghi, M ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; LASERS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

ACTIVE REGIONS; DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK GRATING; GRATING PERIODS; INTRACAVITIES; MID-INFRARED QUANTUM CASCADE; NARROW-LINE WIDTH; NONLINEAR SUSCEPTIBILITIES; OUTPUT POWER; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SIDE MODE SUPPRESSION RATIOS; SINGLE MODE; SINGLE MODE EMISSION; TERAHERTZ QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS; THZ EMISSION; THZ FREQUENCIES;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 84872690516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.000968     Document Type: Article

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