Pushing the Room Temperature Continuous‐Wave Operation Limit of GaSb‐Based Interband Cascade Lasers beyond 6 µm

Frequency noise of free-running 4.6 μm distributed feedback quantum cascade lasers near room temperature.

The frequency noise properties of commercial distributed feedback quantum cascade lasers emitting in the 4.6 μm range and operated in cw mode near room temperature (277 K) are presented. The measured frequency noise power spectral density reveals a flicker noise dropping down to the very low level of <100 Hz(2)/Hz at 10 MHz Fourier frequency and is globally a factor of 100 lower than data recen...

Temperature Effect on THz Quantum Cascade Lasers

A simple semi-phenomenological model, which accurately predicts the dependence of thresholdcurrent for temperature of Resonant-phonon three well quantum cascade laser based on verticaltransitions is offered. We found that, the longitude optical phonon scattering of thermally excitedelectrons is the most important limiting factor for thermal performance of high frequency THz QCLs.In low frequenc...

Direct liquid cooling of room-temperature operated quantum cascade lasers

A compact packaging module for direct liquid cooling of roomtemperature quantum cascade lasers is implemented. The light was coupled out of the hermetically sealed package through a mid-infrared fibre epoxy-bonded to the laser. The threshold current reduces by 10%, compared to convectional substrate-side cooled lasers when using low boiling temperature (boiling point (b.p.)1⁄4 34 C) 3M HFE7000 ...

Demonstration of the self-mixing effect in interband cascade lasers

High-temperature operation of broadband bidirectional terahertz quantum-cascade lasers

Terahertz quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) with a broadband gain medium could play an important role for sensing and spectroscopy since then distributed-feedback schemes could be utilized to produce laser arrays on a single semiconductor chip with wide spectral coverage. QCLs can be designed to emit at two different frequencies when biased with opposing electrical polarities. Here, terahertz QCLs ...