Thermal management of mid-infrared (IR) quantum cascade lasers

Proceedings - Electronic Components and Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 693-699

  Chaparala, Satish C ^a   Xie, Feng ^a   Caneau, Catherine ^a   Hughes, Lawrence C ^a   Zah, Chung En ^a  

^a Corning Incorporated ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REGIONS; CORE DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED-FEEDBACK; ELECTRIC POWER; FINITE ELEMENTS; FUNCTION OF TIME; INTERSUBBAND TRANSITIONS; LASER DIODES; LASER EMISSION; LASER STRUCTURES; LASING FREQUENCY; MIDINFRARED; MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELLS; NARROW-LINE WIDTH; NUMERICAL MODELING; OPTICAL POWER; PUMP CURRENT; SINGLE LONGITUDINAL MODE; SPLIT-CORE; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; THERMAL BEHAVIORS; THERMAL CONDUCTANCE; THERMAL IMPEDANCE; THERMAL MANAGEMENT; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; THERMAL RESISTANCE; THERMAL TUNING; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INFRARED LASERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 77955181070     PISSN: 05695503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECTC.2010.5490673     Document Type: Conference Paper

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