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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 23, Issue 7, Pages 8462-8475Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.008462
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- National Science Foundation [1359779, 1231289, 1306397]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys [1505409] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys [1306397, 1231289, 1359779] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The quantum cascade laser (QCL) is an important laser source in the mid-infrared and terahertz frequency range. The past twenty years have witnessed its tremendous development in power, wall plug efficiency, frequency coverage and tunability, beam quality, as well as various applications based on QCL technology. Nowadays, QCLs can deliver high continuous wave power output up to 5.1 W at room temperature, and cover a wide frequency range from 3 to 300 mu m by simply varying the material components. Broadband heterogeneous QCLs with a broad spectral range from 3 to 12 mu m, wavelength agile QCLs based on monolithic sampled grating design, and on-chip beam QCL combiner are being developed for the next generation tunable mid-infrared source for spectroscopy and sensing. Terahertz sources based on nonlinear generation in QCLs further extend the accessible wavelength into the terahertz range. Room temperature continuous wave operation, high terahertz power up to 1.9 mW, and wide frequency tunability form 1 to 5 THz makes this type of device suitable for many applications in terahertz spectroscopy, imaging, and communication. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America
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