Interband cascade and type-II superlattice mid-infrared lasers

Author

Vurgaftman, I. ; Olafsen, L.J. ; Aifer, E.H. ; Bewley, W.W. ; Felix, C.L. ; Meyer, J.R. ; Lin, Chia-Hung ; Zhang, Dejing ; Murry, S.J. ; Pei, S.S.

Author_Institution

Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

337

Lastpage

338

Abstract

Summary form only given. We report recent theoretical and experimental progress toward efficient and practical mid-IR semiconductor lasers employing active regions with a type-II band alignment. Perhaps the semiconductor IR source with the greatest potential is the interband cascade laser (ICL), in which multiple photons are generated by each injected electron as it traverses a staircase-like quantum well structure.

Keywords

infrared sources; laser transitions; quantum well lasers; semiconductor superlattices; 4.3 mum; active regions; injected electron; interband cascade; interband cascade laser; multiple photon generation; practical mid-IR semiconductor lasers; qunatum well lasers; semiconductor IR source; staircase-like quantum well structure; type-II band alignment; type-II superlattice mid-infrared lasers; Absorption; Electrons; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Optimized production technology; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation; Pulse shaping methods; Quantum cascade lasers; Superlattices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-339-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1998.676260

Filename

676260