Porous waveguide facilitated low divergence quantum cascade laser

Wen Yin; Quanyong Lu; Wanfeng Liu; Jinchuan Zhang; Lijun Wang; Junqi Liu; Lu Li; Fengqi Liu; Zhanguo Wang

doi:10.1088/1674-4926/32/6/064008

Porous waveguide facilitated low divergence quantum cascade laser

Wen Yin, Quanyong Lu, Wanfeng Liu, Jinchuan Zhang, Lijun Wang, Junqi Liu, Lu Li, Fengqi Liu^*, Zhanguo Wang

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Center for Quantum Devices (CQD)

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Abstract

A quantum cascade laser with a porous waveguide structure emitting at 4.5 μm is reported. A branchlike porous structure filled with metal material was fabricated on both sides of the laser ridge by an electrochemical etching process. In contrast to the common ridge waveguide laser, devices with a porous structure give rather better beam quality. Utilizing this porous structure as a high-order mode absorber, the device exhibited fundamental transverse mode emission with a nearly diffraction limited far-field beam divergence angle of 4.9°.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	064008
Journal	Journal of Semiconductors
Volume	32
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-4926/32/6/064008
State	Published - Jun 2011

Keywords

Quantum cascade laser
electrochemical etching
porous structure
ridge waveguide

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Materials Chemistry

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