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- Ryu, Jae Ha, et al.
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Reverse-Taper Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers for Coherent Power Scaling
- 2022
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Ingår i: IEEE Photonics Journal. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 1943-0655. ; 14:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present a reverse-taper quantum cascade laser (QCL) emitting at 4.6 mu m, a novel-geometry device that can scale the output power while maintaining good beam quality. Buried-ridge waveguides with tapered and straight regions were formed by ICP etching and HVPE regrowth - the tapered region scales the output power, while the emitting facet is located at the narrow-end taper section, which provides mode filtering by suppressing high-order spatial modes. Beam profiles were observed under quasi-continuous-wave (QCW)/CW operation and beam quality (M-2) measurements along with beam-stability measurements were performed - a small degree of collimated-beam centroid movement (<0.46 mrad, peak-to-peak) was observed, along with M-2 values close to 1 up to similar to 1 W QCW power. Devices of shorter cavity lengths were also investigated, indicating that the output power scales with the core-region volume but results in a small increase in angular deviation.
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