Extreme events in quantum cascade lasers

Olivier Spitz; Jiagui Wu; Andreas Herdt; Grégory Maisons; Mathieu Carras; Wolfgang Elsäßer; Chee-Wei Wong; Frédéric Grillot

doi:10.1117/1.AP.2.6.066001

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