Title :
High-speed operation of interband cascade lasers
Author :
Soibel, A. ; Wright, M.W. ; Farr, W. ; Keo, S. ; Hill, Christopher ; Yang, R.Q. ; Liu, H.C.
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA
Abstract :
High-speed interband cascade lasers have been fabricated and the first experimental evidence that these devices can be directly modulated at a frequency of 3.2 GHz and above is reported.
Keywords :
optical fabrication; optical modulation; optical pulse generation; semiconductor lasers; direct modulation; frequency 3.2 GHz; high-speed operation; interband cascade lasers;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20090079