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IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
Volume 21, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2015.2426412
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Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs); infrared emitters; antimonides
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- French Delegation Generale pour l'Armement
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France)
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We review the current state of the InAs/AlSb quantum cascade laser (QCL) technology. These materials have brought significant progress in short wavelength QCL due to the high-conduction band offset. The first QCLs emitting below 3 mu m have been demonstrated in this system. The short wavelength limit of QCL operation has further been moved down to 2.6 mu m. This system is also well suited for far-infrared QCLs because high intersubband gain can be achieved at low transition energies due to the small electron effective mass in InAs. Room temperature operation has been demonstrated in InAs-based QCLs to a wavelength of 21 mu m, for the first time for any semiconductor laser emitting above 16 mu m. Both short-and long-wavelength single-frequency distributed feedback InAs/AlSb QCLs have been realized, as well as widely tunable external cavity sources for the 3-3.5 mu m spectral range.
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