• DocumentCode
    3000614
  • Title

    Widely Tunable, High Power, Mode-hop Free, CW External Cavity Quantum Cascade Laser at 8.4μm

  • Author

    Wysocki, Gerard ; Curl, R.F.

  • Author_Institution
    Rice Univ., Houston
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-11 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    An external cavity quantum cascade laser (lambda =8.4 widely tunable, high power, mode-hop free, CW external cavity quantum cascade laser at 8.4 mum) is reported. The laser operating at -30degC exhibits a single mode tuning range of 135-1 providing up to 50 mW of CW laser radiation.
  • Keywords
    laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser modes; laser tuning; optical pulse generation; quantum cascade lasers; CW external cavity; laser tuning; mode-hop free laser; quantum cascade laser; single mode tuning; wavelength 8.4 mum; Chemical lasers; Frequency; Laser modes; Laser tuning; Optical tuning; Pulsed laser deposition; Quantum cascade lasers; Spectroscopy; Temperature; Tunable circuits and devices;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-834-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452346
  • Filename
    4452346