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  • Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2004),
  • paper CMZ6

High Power Quantum Cascade Lasers: A Room Temperature Reality

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Abstract

Mid- and far-infrared diode laser sources have been used in spectroscopic applications for a number of years. Historically, however, the application of these devices has been hindered by low output power and the need for cryogenic refrigeration. The quantum cascade laser, being an unipolar device, does not suffer from the same non-radiative mechanisms that have limited most mid- and far-infrared laser sources. Despite some intrinsic inefficiency due to a shorter carrier lifetime and higher optical losses than near-infrared bipolar diodes, this technology is now capable of both room temperature and high power operation over a significant portion of the mid- and far-infrared spectral region. With potential for multiwatt arrays, many more, especially remote, applications have started to become feasible.

© 2004 Optical Society of America

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