Room-temperature continuous-wave quantum cascade lasers grown by MOCVD without lateral regrowth

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1347-1349

  Liu, Zhijun ^a   Wasserman, Daniel ^a   Howard, Scott S ^a   Hoffman, Anthony J ^a   Gmachl, Claire F ^a   Wang, Xiaojun ^b   Tanbun Ek, Tawee ^b   Cheng, Liwei ^c   Choa, Fow Sen ^c  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b ADTECH OPTICS INC   (United States)

^c Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous wave (CW) lasers; Midinfrared; Quantum cascade (QC) lasers; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; METALLORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WAVEGUIDES;

QUANTUM CASCADE (QC) LASERS; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; ROOM-TEMPERATURE OPERATION; THRESHOLD CURRENT DENSITY;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 33745154803     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.877006     Document Type: Article

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