Pulsed and CW performance of 7-stage interband cascade lasers

被引：61

作者：

Canedy, Chadwick L. ^{[1
]}

Abell, Joshua ^{[1
]}

Merritt, Charles D. ^{[1
]}

Bewley, William W. ^{[1
]}

Kim, Chul Soo ^{[1
]}

Kim, Mijin ^{[2
]}

Vurgaftman, Igor ^{[1
]}

Meyer, Jerry R. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Naval Res Lab, Washington, DC 20375 USA

[2] Sotera Def Solut Inc, Columbia, MD 21046 USA

来源：

OPTICS EXPRESS | 2014年 / 22卷 / 07期

关键词：

HIGH-POWER;

D O I：

10.1364/OE.22.007702

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We report a narrow-ridge interband cascade laser emitting at lambda approximate to 3.5 mu m that produces up to 592 mW of cw power with a wallplug efficiency of 10.1% and beam quality factor of M-2 = 3.7 at T = 25 degrees C. A pulsed cavity length study of broad-area lasers from the same wafer confirms that the 7-stage structure with thicker separate confinement layers has a reduced internal loss of approximate to 3 cm(-1). More generally, devices from a large number of wafers with similar 7-stage designs and wavelengths spanning 2.95-4.7 mu m exhibit consistently higher pulsed external differential quantum efficiencies than earlier state-of-the-art ICLs. (C) 2014 Optical Society of America

引用

页码：7702 / 7710

页数：9

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