Current status and potential of high-power mid-infrared intersubband lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7608, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Slivken, S ^a   Bai, Y ^a   Gokden, B ^a   Darvish, S R ^a   Razeghi, M ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

High power laser; Quantum cascade laser; Strain balanced heterostructures

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE; CURRENT STATUS; HETEROSTRUCTURES; HIGH-POWER; INTERSUBBAND LASERS; LONG WAVELENGTH; MIDINFRARED; OUTPUT POWER; PEAK POWER; RESEARCH AREAS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; STRAIN-BALANCED; WALLPLUG EFFICIENCY;

CRYSTALS; HIGH POWER LASERS; LASERS; NANOPHOTONICS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

INFRARED LASERS;

EID: 77952006107     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.842637     Document Type: Conference Paper

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