Mode switching in a multi-wavelength distributed feedback quantum cascade laser using an external micro-cavity

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Sidler, Meinrad ^a,b   Rauter, Patrick ^a   Blanchard, Romain ^a   Métivier, Pauline ^a   Mansuripur, Tobias S ^a   Wang, Christine ^c   Huang, Yong ^d   Ryou, Jae Hyun ^d   Dupuis, Russell D ^d   Faist, Jérôme ^b   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; MICROCAVITIES;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK; EXTERNAL CAVITY LENGTH; INHOMOGENEITIES; MULTI-WAVELENGTHS; POST-FABRICATION; SIDE MODE SUPPRESSION RATIOS; SINGLE MODE EMISSION; WAVELENGTH TUNING;

QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

EID: 84899793667     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4863663     Document Type: Article

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