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Photonics Research
Vol. 5, Issue 4, 320 (2017)

Stable single-mode operation of a distributed feedback quantum cascade laser integrated with a distributed Bragg reflector

Feng-Min Cheng^1,2,3, Zhi-Wei Jia^1,2,3, Jin-Chuan Zhang^1,2,3,*, Ning Zhuo^1,2,3..., Shen-Qiang Zhai^1,2,3, Li-Jun Wang^1,2,3, Jun-Qi Liu^1,2,3, Shu-Man Liu^1,2,3, Feng-Qi Liu^1,2,3,4 and Zhan-Guo Wang^1,2,3|Show fewer author(s)

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¹Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials Science, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

²Beijing Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Semiconductor Materials and Devices, Beijing 100083, China

³College of Materials Science and Opto-Electronic Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China

⁴e-mail: fqliu@semi.ac.cn

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Feng-Min Cheng, Zhi-Wei Jia, Jin-Chuan Zhang, Ning Zhuo, Shen-Qiang Zhai, Li-Jun Wang, Jun-Qi Liu, Shu-Man Liu, Feng-Qi Liu, Zhan-Guo Wang, "Stable single-mode operation of a distributed feedback quantum cascade laser integrated with a distributed Bragg reflector," Photonics Res. 5, 320 (2017) Copy Citation Text

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Feng-Min Cheng, Zhi-Wei Jia, Jin-Chuan Zhang, Ning Zhuo, Shen-Qiang Zhai, Li-Jun Wang, Jun-Qi Liu, Shu-Man Liu, Feng-Qi Liu, Zhan-Guo Wang, "Stable single-mode operation of a distributed feedback quantum cascade laser integrated with a distributed Bragg reflector," Photonics Res. 5, 320 (2017)

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