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Advanced Photonics, Volume. 2, Issue 6, 066001(2020)

Extreme events in quantum cascade lasers

Olivier Spitz1,2,3、*, Jiagui Wu3,4, Andreas Herdt5, Grégory Maisons2, Mathieu Carras2, Wolfgang Elsäßer5, Chee-Wei Wong3, and Frédéric Grillot1,3,6
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  • 1LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France
  • 2mirSense, Centre d’Intégration NanoInnov, Palaiseau, France
  • 3University of California Los Angeles, Fang Lu Mesoscopic Optics and Quantum Electronics Laboratory, Los Angeles, California, United States
  • 4Southwest University, College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Chongqing, China
  • 5Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
  • 6University of New Mexico, Center for High Technology Materials, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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    Olivier Spitz, Jiagui Wu, Andreas Herdt, Grégory Maisons, Mathieu Carras, Wolfgang Elsäßer, Chee-Wei Wong, Frédéric Grillot, "Extreme events in quantum cascade lasers," Adv. Photon. 2, 066001 (2020)

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    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Aug. 16, 2019

    Accepted: Sep. 25, 2020

    Posted: Sep. 27, 2020

    Published Online: Oct. 23, 2020

    The Author Email: Spitz Olivier (olivier.spitz@telecom-paris.fr)

    DOI:10.1117/1.AP.2.6.066001

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