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Paper Abstract
We discuss approaches to increasing the cw output power of the interband cascade lasers (ICLs) for the midwave
infrared spectral region. While most of the attention to date has been focused on reducing the operating power of the
ICL, the optimization for maximum output power proceeds in a different direction. We find that increasing the
number of stage is beneficial, in that it boosts the slope efficiency with only a modest penalty due to higher
threshold power density and extra heating. The critical figure of merit for realizing high-power ICLs is the internal
loss, which can be estimated from the external differential quantum efficiency (EDQE) per stage. The internal loss
can be controlled by varying the thickness of the low-doped GaSb separate-confinement layers (SCLs). We
demonstrate room-temperature EDQEs approaching 45% for broad-area 7-stage ICLs with 800-nm-thick SCLs.
Paper Details
Date Published: 23 May 2013
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 8733, Laser Technology for Defense and Security IX, 87330B (23 May 2013); doi: 10.1117/12.2015408
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8733:
Laser Technology for Defense and Security IX
Mark Dubinskii; Stephen G. Post, Editor(s)
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 8733, Laser Technology for Defense and Security IX, 87330B (23 May 2013); doi: 10.1117/12.2015408
Show Author Affiliations
C. D. Merritt, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (United States)
W. W. Bewley, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (United States)
C. L. Canedy, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (United States)
M. Kim, Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc. (United States)
W. W. Bewley, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (United States)
C. L. Canedy, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (United States)
M. Kim, Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc. (United States)
C. S. Kim, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (United States)
J. Abell, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (United States)
I. Vurgaftman, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (United States)
J. R. Meyer, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (United States)
J. Abell, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (United States)
I. Vurgaftman, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (United States)
J. R. Meyer, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (United States)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8733:
Laser Technology for Defense and Security IX
Mark Dubinskii; Stephen G. Post, Editor(s)
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