Mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers

Y Yao, AJ Hoffman, CF Gmachl - Nature Photonics, 2012 - nature.com
Mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers are semiconductor injection lasers whose active core
implements a multiple-quantum-well structure. Relying on a designed staircase of …

Tunable diode laser spectroscopy as a technique for combustion diagnostics

MA Bolshov, YA Kuritsyn, YV Romanovskii - Spectrochimica Acta Part B …, 2015 - Elsevier
Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) has become a proven method of
rapid gas diagnostics. In the present review an overview of the state of the art of TDL-based …

Continuous wave operation of a mid-infrared semiconductor laser at room temperature

M Beck, D Hofstetter, T Aellen, J Faist, U Oesterle… - science, 2002 - science.org
Continuous wave operation of quantum cascade lasers is reported up to a temperature of
312 kelvin. The devices were fabricated as buried heterostructure lasers with high-reflection …

Diode laser absorption sensors for gas-dynamic and combustion flows

MG Allen - Measurement Science and technology, 1998 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent advances in room-temperature, near-IR and visible diode laser sources for tele-
communication, high-speed computer networks, and optical data storage applications are …

Recent progress in quantum cascade lasers and applications

C Gmachl, F Capasso, DL Sivco… - Reports on progress in …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum cascade (QC') lasers are reviewed. These are semiconductor injection lasers
based on intersubband transitions in a multiple-quantum-well (QW) heterostructure …

High-power directional emission from microlasers with chaotic resonators

C Gmachl, F Capasso, EE Narimanov, JU Nöckel… - Science, 1998 - science.org
High-power and highly directional semiconductor microcylinder lasers based on an optical
resonator with deformed cross section are reported. In the favorable directions of the far …

Distributed feedback quantum cascade lasers

J Faist, C Gmachl, F Capasso, C Sirtori… - Applied Physics …, 1997 - pubs.aip.org
Pulsed single mode operation of distributed feedback quantum cascade lasers is reported
above room temperature at both 5.4 and 8 μm wavelengths. Peak optical powers up to 60 …

quantum cascade lasers

C Sirtori, P Kruck, S Barbieri, P Collot, J Nagle… - Applied Physics …, 1998 - pubs.aip.org
A unipolar injection quantum cascade (QC) laser grown in an AlGaAs/GaAs material system
by molecular beam epitaxy, is reported. The active material is a 30 period sequence of …

Quantum cascade lasers: ultrahigh-speed operation, optical wireless communication, narrow linewidth, and far-infrared emission

F Capasso, R Paiella, R Martini… - IEEE Journal of …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Following an introduction to the history of the invention of the quantum cascade (QC) laser
and of the band-structure engineering advances that have led to laser action over most of …

Ultra-broadband semiconductor laser

C Gmachl, DL Sivco, R Colombelli, F Capasso, AY Cho - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
The fundamental mechanism behind laser action leads in general only to narrowband,
single-wavelength emission. Several approaches for achieving spectrally broadband laser …