Room temperature type-II interband cascade laser
- 15 July 2002
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 81 (3) , 397-399
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1494455
Abstract
A mid-IR (3.3–3.5 μm) type-II interband cascade laser has been demonstrated at temperatures up to 300 K in pulsed mode and 150 K in cw mode. Threshold current densities as low as 13.2 A/cm2 and power efficiencies as large as 17% have been achieved under cw conditions at 80 K.Keywords
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