InAs-based plasmon-waveguide interband cascade lasers

Zhaobing Tian; Chen Chen; Rui Q. Yang; Tetsuya D. Mishima; Michael B. Santos; Joel C. Keay; Matthew B. Johnson; J. F. Klem

doi:10.1117/12.842150

12 February 2010 InAs-based plasmon-waveguide interband cascade lasers

Zhaobing Tian, Chen Chen, Rui Q. Yang, Tetsuya D. Mishima, Michael B. Santos, Joel C. Keay, Matthew B. Johnson, J. F. Klem

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Proceedings Volume 7616, Novel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers IX; 76161B (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.842150
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2010, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Interband cascade (IC) lasers take advantage of the broken band-gap alignment in type-II quantum wells to reuse injected electrons in cascade stages for photon generation with high-quantum efficiency, while retaining interband transitions for photon emission without involving fast phonon scattering. Over the past several years, significant progress has been made in developing efficient IC lasers, particularly in the 3-4 μm region where continuous wave (cw) operation was achieved at above room temperature with low power consumption. In this paper, we report our recent efforts in the development of IC lasers at longer wavelengths (4.3-7.5 μm) based on InAs substrates and plasmon-waveguide structures. Cw operation of plasmon-waveguide IC lasers has been achieved at temperatures up to 184 K near 6 μm. Also, improved thermal dissipation has been demonstrated with the use of the plasmon waveguide structure.

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Zhaobing Tian, Chen Chen, Rui Q. Yang, Tetsuya D. Mishima, Michael B. Santos, Joel C. Keay, Matthew B. Johnson, and J. F. Klem "InAs-based plasmon-waveguide interband cascade lasers", Proc. SPIE 7616, Novel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers IX, 76161B (12 February 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.842150

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