Room temperature CW operation of mid-IR distributed feedback quantum cascade lasers for CO 2, N 2O, and NO gas sensing

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1605-1612

  Xie, Feng ^a   Caneau, Catherine ^a   Leblanc, Herve P ^a   Visovsky, Nick J ^a   Coleman, Sean ^a   Hughes, Lawrence C ^a   Zah, Chung En ^a  

^a Corning Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed feedback (DFB); gas sensing; mid infrared (MIR); quantum cascade lasers (QCLs); semiconductor lasers; single fundamental mode

Indexed keywords

CENTER WAVELENGTH; CONTINUOUS WAVES; CW OPERATION; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK; DOPING DENSITIES; FAR-FIELD; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; GAS SENSING; GRATING PERIODS; HIGH-POWER; INP SUBSTRATES; LOW THRESHOLD VOLTAGE; LOW THRESHOLDS; MIDINFRARED; OUTPUT POWER; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STRAIN-BALANCED; WAVELENGTH COVERAGE; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL DETECTION; GALLIUM ALLOYS; GAS DETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

EID: 84865681845     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2012.2193876     Document Type: Article

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