Mode competition and power characteristics in terahertz second-order distributed feedback quantum cascade lasers

YAN Quan; WANG Fang-Fang; ZHU Huan; YU Chen-Ren; XU Gang-Yi; CHEN Jian-Xin; HE Li

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2017.01.012

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