We review the history, development, design principles, experimental operating
characteristics, and specialized architectures of interband cascade lasers for the mid-wave …

Mid‐wavelength infrared (MWIR) photodetectors (PDs) are highly essential for
environmental sensing of hazardous gases, security, defense, and medical applications …

This new edition of Infrared and Terahertz Detectors provides a comprehensive overview of
infrared and terahertz detector technology, from fundamental science to materials and …

In 1959, Lawson and co-workers published the paper which triggered development of
variable band gap Hg 1− x Cd x Te (HgCdTe) alloys providing an unprecedented degree of …

InAs/(In, Ga) Sb type‐II strained layer superlattices (T2SLs) have made significant progress
since they were first proposed as an infrared (IR) sensing material more than three decades …

Heterogeneous integration of III–V photodetectors on Si substrates offers great advantages
for manufacturing complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) compatible photonic …

The next generation of infrared imaging systems requires control of fundamental
electromagnetic processes–absorption, polarization, spectral bandwidth–at the pixel level to …

At present, uncooled thermal detector focal plane arrays are successfully used in staring
thermal imagers. However, the performance of thermal detectors is modest, they suffer from …

One of the critical limitations of photonic infrared (IR) photodetectors is the cooling
requirement that is placed on it. Uncooled detectors are usually based on thermal detectors …

High-speed mid-wave infrared (MWIR) photodetectors have important applications in the
emerging areas such high-precision frequency comb spectroscopy and light detection and …