The interband cascade laser

JR Meyer, WW Bewley, CL Canedy, CS Kim, M Kim… - Photonics, 2020 - mdpi.com
We review the history, development, design principles, experimental operating
characteristics, and specialized architectures of interband cascade lasers for the mid-wave …

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 …

Quantum cascade lasers: 20 years of challenges

MS Vitiello, G Scalari, B Williams, P De Natale - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We review the most recent technological and application advances of quantum cascade
lasers, underlining the present milestones and future directions from the Mid-infrared to the …

Sensing technologies for detection of acetone in human breath for diabetes diagnosis and monitoring

V Saasa, T Malwela, M Beukes, M Mokgotho, CP Liu… - Diagnostics, 2018 - mdpi.com
The review describes the technologies used in the field of breath analysis to diagnose and
monitor diabetes mellitus. Currently the diagnosis and monitoring of blood glucose and …

Interband cascade lasers

I Vurgaftman, R Weih, M Kamp, JR Meyer… - Journal of Physics D …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the current status of interband cascade lasers (ICLs) emitting in the midwave
infrared (IR). The ICL may be considered the hybrid of a conventional diode laser that …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling techniques for quantum cascade lasers

C Jirauschek, T Kubis - Applied Physics Reviews, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum cascade lasers are unipolar semiconductor lasers covering a wide range of the
infrared and terahertz spectrum. Lasing action is achieved by using optical intersubband …

New frontiers in quantum cascade lasers: high performance room temperature terahertz sources

MA Belkin, F Capasso - Physica Scripta, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In the last decade quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) have become the most widely used
source of mid-infrared radiation, finding large scale applications because of their wide …

Lasing in strained germanium microbridges

FT Armand Pilon, A Lyasota, YM Niquet… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Germanium has long been regarded as a promising laser material for silicon based opto-
electronics. It is CMOS-compatible and has a favourable band structure, which can be tuned …

Selective-area epitaxy of pure wurtzite InP nanowires: high quantum efficiency and room-temperature lasing

Q Gao, D Saxena, F Wang, L Fu, S Mokkapati… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We report the growth of stacking-fault-free and taper-free wurtzite InP nanowires with
diameters ranging from 80 to 600 nm using selective-area metal–organic vapor-phase …

Quantum cascade lasers: from tool to product

M Razeghi, QY Lu, N Bandyopadhyay, W Zhou… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
The quantum cascade laser (QCL) is an important laser source in the mid-infrared and
terahertz frequency range. The past twenty years have witnessed its tremendous …