• DocumentCode
    2134437
  • Title

    Watt-level room temperature continuous-wave operation of quantum cascade lasers with λ >10 μm

  • Author

    Xie, Feng ; Caneau, Catherine ; LeBlanc, Herve P. ; Caffey, David P. ; Hughes, Lawrence C. ; Day, Timothy ; Zah, Chung-en

  • Author_Institution
    Corning Inc., Corning, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    7-10 Oct. 2012
  • Firstpage
    32
  • Lastpage
    33
  • Abstract
    We demonstrated room temperature high power CW operation of quantum cascade lasers at 10.3 and 10.7 μm wavelengths. The CW output power reached 1.15W, and the wall-plug-efficiency reached 3.7% at 15 °C.
  • Keywords
    laser beams; quantum cascade lasers; CW output power; power 1.15 W; quantum cascade lasers; room temperature high power CW operation; temperature 15 degC; temperature 293 K to 298 K; wall-plug-efficiency; watt-level room temperature continuous-wave operation; wavelength 10.3 mum; wavelength 10.7 mum; Cavity resonators; Measurement by laser beam; Performance evaluation; Power generation; Quantum cascade lasers; Threshold current;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Semiconductor Laser Conference (ISLC), 2012 23rd IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • ISSN
    0899-9406
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0828-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISLC.2012.6348313
  • Filename
    6348313