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Investigation of the Beam Quality of a Terahertz Emitting Vertical-External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser

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Acknowledgments

G. U. acknowledges support from EMRP-NEW07. The EMRP is jointly funded by the EMRP participating countries within EURAMET and the European Union. The authors further thank Bernd Heinen and Wolfgang Stolz for processing the VECSEL chip. Additionally, the authors would like to thank Maik Scheller and Jerome V. Moloney for valuable discussions.

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    Fan Zhang, Siming Wang, Arno Rehn, Matthias Wichmann, Gunter Urbasch, Arash Rahimi-Iman, Stephan W. Koch & Martin Koch

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Zhang, F., Wang, S., Rehn, A. et al. Investigation of the Beam Quality of a Terahertz Emitting Vertical-External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser. J Infrared Milli Terahz Waves 37, 536–539 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10762-016-0274-9

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