Room temperature CW operation of short wavelength quantum cascade lasers made of strain balanced gaxin1-xas/aly in 1-yas material on inP substrates

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1445-1452

  Xie, Feng ^a   Caneau, Catherine ^a   Leblanc, Herve P ^a   Visovsky, Nick J ^a   Chaparala, Satish C ^a   Deichmann, Oberon D ^a   Hughes, Lawrence C ^a   Zah, Chung En ^a   Caffey, David P ^b   Day, Timothy ^b  

^a Corning Inc ^*  (United States)

^b Daylight Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Fundamental mode; quantum cascade lasers (QCLs); reliability; semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

AGING CONDITIONS; CONSTANT CURRENT; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASING; CW LASING; CW OPERATION; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; INP SUBSTRATES; LATERAL MODES; LIFE-TESTS; OUTPUT POWER; QUANTUM CASCADES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; STRAIN-BALANCED;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; GALLIUM ALLOYS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 80053958278     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2136325     Document Type: Article

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