• DocumentCode
    1660428
  • Title

    Pulsed wavelength tuning and continuous wave operation of distributed Bragg reflector quantum cascade lasers

  • Author

    Xie, Feng ; Caneau, Catherine ; LeBlanc, Herve P. ; Coleman, Sean ; Hughes, Lawrence C. ; Zah, Chung-en

  • Author_Institution
    Corning Inc., Corning, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrated 37 cm-1 pulsed wavelength tuning, and 500 mW CW output power at 20°C and 4.74 μm wavelength with a SMSR of 30 dB, using DBR QCLs unmounted and mounted epi-down, respectively.
  • Keywords
    distributed Bragg reflector lasers; laser modes; laser tuning; optical pulse generation; quantum cascade lasers; DBR QCL; SMSR; continuous wave operation; distributed Bragg reflector quantum cascade lasers; power 500 mW; pulsed wavelength tuning; side mode suppression ratio; temperature 20 degC; wave number 37 cm-1; wavelength 4.74 mum; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Laser modes; Laser tuning; Quantum cascade lasers; Temperature measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6325914