Title :
Room temperature CW operation of DFB quantum cascade lasers with wide wavelength coverage near 5.2 μm
Author :
Xie, Feng ; Caneau, Catherine ; Leblanc, Herve P. ; Coleman, Sean ; Hughes, Lawrence C. ; Zah, Chung-en
Author_Institution :
Corning Inc., Corning, NY, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrated room temperature CW operation of DFB quantum cascade lasers with wide wavelength coverage from 4.83 μm to 5.44 μm, corresponding to a wavenumber coverage of 232 cm-1, for NOx sensing applications.
Keywords :
distributed feedback lasers; quantum cascade lasers; DFB quantum cascade lasers; NOx sensing applications; room temperature CW operation; temperature 293 K to 298 K; wave number 232 cm-1; wavelength 4.83 mum to 5.44 mum; wavelength coverage; wavenumber coverage; Gain; Gratings; Power lasers; Quantum cascade lasers; Temperature sensors; Threshold current;
Conference_Titel :
Semiconductor Laser Conference (ISLC), 2012 23rd IEEE International
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0828-2
DOI :
10.1109/ISLC.2012.6348311