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
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;
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.2012.6348313
