Rapidly tunable quantum cascade lasers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Suchalkin, Sergey ^a   Belenky, Gregory ^a   Belkin, Mikhail A ^b  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

distributed feedback lasers; optical FM communications; quantum cascade lasers; spectroscopy; tunable lasers

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LASER TUNING; PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPECTROSCOPY; TUNING; WAVEGUIDES;

CONTINUOUS FREQUENCY; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK; ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE; ELECTRON HOLE PAIRS; EMISSION FREQUENCY MODULATION; OPTICAL GENERATION; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; TELECOM DIODE LASERS;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 84933041768     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2015.2425295     Document Type: Article

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