High-power continuous-wave interband cascade lasers with 10 active stages

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 9664-9672

  Kim, Mijin ^a   Bewley, William W ^b   Canedy, Chadwick L ^b   Kim, Chul Soo ^b   Merritt, Charles D ^b   Abell, Joshua ^b   Vurgaftman, Igor ^b   Meyer, Jerry R ^b  

^a SOTERA DEFENSE SOLUTIONS   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; PULSED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

BEAM QUALITY FACTOR; CAVITY LENGTH; CONTINUOUS WAVE; CONTINUOUS WAVES; DIFFERENTIAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; INTERBAND CASCADE LASER; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; WALLPLUG EFFICIENCY;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 84942547541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.009664     Document Type: Article

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