• DocumentCode
    3194846
  • Title

    Design rules for high wall-plug efficiency quantum cascade lasers

  • Author

    Ouerghemmi, E. ; Trinité, V. ; Nagle, J.

  • Author_Institution
    THALES Res. & Technol., Palaiseau, France
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    26-30 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    91
  • Lastpage
    92
  • Abstract
    An excellent agreement is achieved between calculated and experimental performances for published designs. By optimization of gain saturation in the structure, wall plug efficiency can be increased by more than 50%.
  • Keywords
    amplification; quantum cascade lasers; gain saturation optimization; high wall plug efficiency quantum cascade laser; injector barrier thickness; Cavity resonators; Materials; Optimization; Photonics; Plugs; Quantum cascade lasers; Temperature; Injectorless quantum cascade laser; gain saturation; high power; high wall plug efficiency; injector barrier thickness; multiple material band design;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Semiconductor Laser Conference (ISLC), 2010 22nd IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Kyoto
  • ISSN
    0899-9406
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5683-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISLC.2010.5642738
  • Filename
    5642738