Recent progress in quantum cascade lasers and applications

C Gmachl, F Capasso, DL Sivco… - Reports on progress in …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum cascade (QC') lasers are reviewed. These are semiconductor injection lasers
based on intersubband transitions in a multiple-quantum-well (QW) heterostructure …

Near-and mid-infrared laser-optical sensors for gas analysis

P Werle, F Slemr, K Maurer, R Kormann… - Optics and lasers in …, 2002 - Elsevier
Semiconductor diode lasers were first developed in the mid-1960s and found immediate
application as much needed tunable sources for high-resolution laser spectroscopy …

Multimode regimes in quantum cascade lasers: From coherent instabilities to spatial hole burning

A Gordon, CY Wang, L Diehl, FX Kärtner… - Physical Review A …, 2008 - APS
A theoretical and experimental study of multimode operation regimes in quantum cascade
lasers (QCLs) is presented. It is shown that the fast gain recovery of QCLs promotes two …

Sub-part-per-billion detection of nitric oxide in air using a thermoelectrically cooled mid-infrared quantum cascade laser spectrometer

DD Nelson, JH Shorter, JB McManus, MS Zahniser - Applied Physics B, 2002 - Springer
Non-cryogenic, laser-absorption spectroscopy in the mid-infrared has wide applications for
practical detection of trace gases in the atmosphere. We report measurements of nitric oxide …

[LIVRE][B] Handbook of lasers

MJ Weber - 2000 - books.google.com
Lasers continue to be an amazingly robust field of activity. Anyone seeking a photon source
is now confronted with an enormous number of possible lasers and laser wavelengths to …

Application of quantum cascade lasers to high-precision atmospheric trace gas measurements

JB McManus, MS Zahniser, DD Nelson Jr… - Optical …, 2010 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We review our recent results in development of high-precision laser spectroscopic
instrumentation using midinfrared quantum cascade lasers (QCLs). Some of these …

High-temperature operation of distributed feedback quantum-cascade lasers at 5.3 μm

D Hofstetter, M Beck, T Aellen, J Faist - Applied Physics Letters, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
High-temperature operation of a low-threshold 5.3 m quantum-cascade distributed feedback
laser is presented. The emission spectrum was single mode with more than 20 dB side …

New frontiers in quantum cascade lasers and applications

F Capasso, C Gmachl, R Paiella… - IEEE Journal of …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances and new directions in quantum cascade (QC) lasers are discussed.
Invented in 1994 following many years of research on band-structure engineered …

Photoacoustic spectroscopy using quantum-cascade lasers

BA Paldus, TG Spence, RN Zare, J Oomens… - Optics letters, 1999 - opg.optica.org
Photoacoustic spectra of ammonia and water vapor were recorded by use of a continuous-
wave quantum-cascade distributed-feedback (QC-DFB) laser at 8.5? m with a 16-mW power …

Single-mode surface-plasmon laser

A Tredicucci, C Gmachl, F Capasso… - Applied physics …, 2000 - pubs.aip.org
Surface-plasmon modes confined at the interface between a metal and a semiconductor are
exploited in place of conventional dielectric waveguides for the realization of a λ∼ 17 μ m …