• DocumentCode
    925508
  • Title

    Direct liquid cooling of room-temperature operated quantum cascade lasers

  • Author

    Chen, J.-Z. ; Liu, Z. ; Rumala, Y.S. ; Sivco, D.L. ; Gmachl, C.F.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    42
  • Issue
    9
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    4/27/2006 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    534
  • Lastpage
    535
  • Abstract
    A compact packaging module for direct liquid cooling of room-temperature quantum cascade lasers is implemented. The light was coupled out of the hermetically sealed package through a mid-infrared fibre epoxy-bonded to the laser. The threshold current reduces by ∼10%, compared to convectional substrate-side cooled lasers when using low boiling temperature (boiling point (b.p.)=34°C) 3M HFE-7000 coolant. No reduction was observed with high boiling point 3M FC-77 (b.p.=97°C) coolant.
  • Keywords
    cooling; hermetic seals; polymers; quantum cascade lasers; semiconductor device packaging; compact packaging module; direct liquid cooling; laser cooling; mid-infrared fibre epoxy bonding; room-temperature quantum cascade lasers; substrate-side cooled lasers; threshold current;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20064277
  • Filename
    1628534