High-power arrays of quantum cascade laser master-oscillator power-amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 4518-4530

  Rauter, Patrick ^a   Menzel, Stefan ^a   Goyal, Anish K ^b   Wang, Christine A ^b   Sanchez, Antonio ^b   Turner, George ^b   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

HIGH OUTPUT POWER; MASTER OSCILLATOR POWER AMPLIFIERS; MULTIWAVELENGTH; PEAK POWER; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SINGLE MODE EMISSION; SPECTROSCOPY APPLICATIONS; TWO ARRAYS;

QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LASER; OSCILLOMETRY; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; OSCILLOMETRY;

EID: 84874535521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.004518     Document Type: Article

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