Title :
Coherent beam-combining of quantum cascade amplifier arrays
Author :
Saar, Brian G. ; Creedon, Kevin J. ; Missaggia, Leo J. ; Wang, Christine A. ; Connors, Michael K. ; Donnelly, Joseph P. ; Turner, George W. ; Sanchez-Rubio, Antonio ; Herzog, William D.
Author_Institution :
MIT Lincoln Lab., Lexington, MA, USA
Abstract :
We present design, packaging and coherent beam combining of quantum cascade amplifier (QCA) arrays, measurements of QCA phase noise, the drive-current-to-optical-phase transfer function, and the small signal gain for QCAs.
Keywords :
laser beams; laser noise; light coherence; optical transfer function; phase noise; quantum cascade lasers; semiconductor laser arrays; coherent beam combining; drive-current-optical-phase transfer function; quantum cascade amplifier array design; quantum cascade amplifier array packaging; quantum cascade amplifier phase noise; small signal gain; Laser beams; Measurement by laser beam; Noise measurement; Phase measurement; Phase noise; Quantum cascade lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
