Interband cascade lasers

I Vurgaftman, R Weih, M Kamp, JR Meyer… - Journal of Physics D …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the current status of interband cascade lasers (ICLs) emitting in the midwave
infrared (IR). The ICL may be considered the hybrid of a conventional diode laser that …

Room temperature quantum cascade lasers with 27% wall plug efficiency

Y Bai, N Bandyopadhyay, S Tsao, S Slivken… - Applied Physics …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
Using the recently proposed shallow-well design, we demonstrate InP based quantum
cascade lasers (QCLs) emitting around 4.9 μ m with 27% and 21% wall plug efficiencies in …

Passively mode-locked interband cascade optical frequency combs

M Bagheri, C Frez, LA Sterczewski, I Gruidin… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Since their inception, optical frequency combs have transformed a broad range of technical
and scientific disciplines, spanning time kee** to navigation. Recently, dual comb …

High-efficiency, high-power mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers

D Botez, JD Kirch, C Boyle, KM Oresick… - Optical Materials …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The step-taper active-region (STA) design concept is implemented for~ 5.0 μm-emitting
quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition …

Mitigating valence intersubband absorption in interband cascade lasers

H Knötig, J Nauschütz, N Opačak… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Interband cascade lasers (ICLs), especially valued for their low power consumption, are
particularly appealing for portable, compact, and battery‐driven trace gas sensors. However …

Temperature sensitivity of the electro-optical characteristics for mid-infrared (λ= 3–16 μm)-emitting quantum cascade lasers

D Botez, CC Chang, LJ Mawst - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The temperature dependences of the threshold current and slope efficiency, as represented
by their respective characteristic temperature coefficients T 0 and T 1, are discussed for …

Interband cascade lasers with low threshold powers and high output powers

I Vurgaftman, WW Bewley, CL Canedy… - IEEE Journal of …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The midwave infrared interband cascade laser (ICL) can operate at threshold power
densities 30 times lower than those of the quantum cascade laser. This is ultimately …

High-power mid-infrared (λ∼ 3-6 μm) quantum cascade lasers

LJ Mawst, D Botez - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performances of mid-infrared (IR) quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are now reaching a
maturity level that enables a variety of applications which require compact laser sources …

Highly temperature insensitive quantum cascade lasers

Y Bai, N Bandyopadhyay, S Tsao, E Selcuk… - Applied Physics …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
An InP based quantum cascade laser (QCL) heterostructure emitting around 5 μ m is grown
with gas-source molecular beam epitaxy. The QCL core design takes a shallow-well …

Split-well resonant-phonon terahertz quantum cascade laser

S Levy, N Lander Gower, S Piperno, SJ Addamane… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We present a highly diagonal “split-well resonant-phonon”(SWRP) active region design for
GaAs/Al_0. 3Ga_0. 7As terahertz quantum cascade lasers (THz-QCLs). Negative differential …