• DocumentCode
    733796
  • 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
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7184238