High-performance injectorless quantum cascade lasers emitting below 6 μm
An injectorless quantum cascade laser emitting around 5.7 μm with more than 1 W of output power and a wall-plug efficiency of 3.6% at room temperature in pulsed operation is presented. The active region of the device is a design that picked up the idea of the four-alloy structure, which has already...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Applied physics letters 2009-04, Vol.94 (15) |
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Zusammenfassung: | An injectorless quantum cascade laser emitting around 5.7 μm with more than 1 W of output power and a wall-plug efficiency of 3.6% at room temperature in pulsed operation is presented. The active region of the device is a design that picked up the idea of the four-alloy structure, which has already lead to very low threshold current densities. The pulsed threshold current densities were measured as low as 1.1 kA/cm2 at room temperature for an as-cleaved 3.6 mm long device, and 0.93 kA/cm2 for a high-reflection-coated 4 mm long device. |
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ISSN: | 0003-6951 1077-3118 |
DOI: | 10.1063/1.3119184 |