Highly temperature insensitive quantum cascade lasers

Y. Bai; N. Bandyopadhyay; S. Tsao; E. Selcuk; S. Slivken; M. Razeghi

doi:10.1063/1.3529449

Highly temperature insensitive quantum cascade lasers

Y. Bai^*, N. Bandyopadhyay, S. Tsao, E. Selcuk, S. Slivken, M. Razeghi

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An InP based quantum cascade laser (QCL) heterostructure emitting around 5 μm is grown with gas-source molecular beam epitaxy. The QCL core design takes a shallow-well approach to maximize the characteristic temperatures, T ⁰ and T¹, for operations above room temperature. A T ⁰ value of 383 K and a T¹ value of 645 K are obtained within a temperature range of 298-373 K. In room temperature continuous wave operation, this design gives a single facet output power of 3 W and a wall plug efficiency of 16% from a device with a cavity length of 5 mm and a ridge width of 8 μm.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	251104
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	97
Issue number	25
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3529449
State	Published - Dec 20 2010

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