Watt level performance of quantum cascade lasers in room temperature continuous wave operation at λ∼3.76 μm

N. Bandyopadhyay; Y. Bai; B. Gokden; A. Myzaferi; S. Tsao; S. Slivken; M. Razeghi

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Watt level performance of quantum cascade lasers in room temperature continuous wave operation at λ∼3.76 μm

N. Bandyopadhyay^*, Y. Bai, B. Gokden, A. Myzaferi, S. Tsao, S. Slivken, M. Razeghi

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An InP-based quantum cascade laser heterostructure emitting at 3.76 μm is grown with gas-source molecular beam epitaxy. The laser core is composed of strain balanced In0.76 Ga0.24 As/ In0.26 Al0.74 As. Pulsed testing at room temperature exhibits a low threshold current density (1.5 kA/ cm²) and high wall plug efficiency (10%). Room temperature continuous wave operation gives 6% wall plug efficiency with a maximum output power of 1.1 W. Continuous wave operation persists up to 95 °C.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	131117
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	97
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3496489
State	Published - Sep 27 2010

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