High-power mid-IR type II interband cascade lasers

被引：1

作者：

Bruno, JD ^{[1
]}

Yang, RQ ^{[1
]}

Bradshaw, JL ^{[1
]}

Pham, JT ^{[1
]}

Wortman, DE ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] USA, Res Lab, Adelphi, MD 20783 USA

来源：

ENABLING PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGIES FOR AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS II | 2000年 / 4042卷

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D O I：

10.1117/12.391912

中图分类号：

V [航空、航天];

学科分类号：

08 ; 0825 ;

摘要：

Type-II interband cascade (IC) lasers take advantage of the broken-gap alignment in type-II quantum wells to reuse electrons for sequential photon emissions from serially connected active regions. Here, we describe recent advances in InAs/GaInSb type-II IC lasers at emission wavelengths of 3.6-4 mu m; these semiconductor lasers have exhibited significantly higher differential quantum efficiencies and peak powers than previously reported. Low threshold current densities (e.g., similar to 56 A/cm(2) at 80 K) and power efficiency exceeding 9% were observed from a mesa-stripe laser in cw operation. Also, these lasers were able to operate at temperatures up to 250 K in pulsed mode and 127 K in cw mode. We observed from several devices at temperatures above 80 K, slope efficiencies exceeding 1 W/A/facet, corresponding to a differential external quantum efficiency exceeding 600%. A peak optical output power of similar to 6 W/facet was observed from a type-II IC laser at 80 K.

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