Very high wall plug efficiency of quantum cascade lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7608, Issue , 2010, Pages

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

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Mid infrared; Quantum cascade lasers; Wall plug efficiency

Indexed keywords

LIMITING FACTORS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MATERIAL QUALITY; MID-INFRARED QUANTUM CASCADE; NEW DESIGN; PULSED-MODE OPERATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; ROOM TEMPERATURE CONTINUOUS WAVE OPERATION; WALLPLUG EFFICIENCY;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; INFRARED LASERS; NANOPHOTONICS; PULSED LASERS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 77952006253     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.855650     Document Type: Conference Paper

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