Mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers

Y Yao, AJ Hoffman, CF Gmachl - Nature Photonics, 2012 - nature.com
Mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers are semiconductor injection lasers whose active core
implements a multiple-quantum-well structure. Relying on a designed staircase of …

Wave engineering with THz quantum cascade lasers

C Sirtori, S Barbieri, R Colombelli - Nature Photonics, 2013 - nature.com
Quantum cascade lasers are compact devices based on mature compound semiconductors
such as GaAs that take advantage of highly developed optoelectronic fabrication techniques …

[HTML][HTML] A mid-infrared lab-on-a-chip for dynamic reaction monitoring

B Hinkov, F Pilat, L Lux, PL Souza, M David… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Mid-infrared spectroscopy is a sensitive and selective technique for probing molecules in the
gas or liquid phase. Investigating chemical reactions in bio-medical applications such as …

Quantum cascade laser frequency combs

J Faist, G Villares, G Scalari, M Rösch, C Bonzon… - …, 2016 - degruyter.com
It was recently demonstrated that broadband quantum cascade lasers can operate as
frequency combs. As such, they operate under direct electrical pumping at both mid-infrared …

Quantum cascade lasers: from tool to product

M Razeghi, QY Lu, N Bandyopadhyay, W Zhou… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Tunable single-mode chip-scale mid-infrared laser

E Shim, A Gil-Molina, O Westreich, Y Dikmelik… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Portable mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectroscopy and sensing applications require widely
tunable, chip-scale, single-mode sources without sacrificing significant output power …

Recent advances in mid infrared (3-5µm) Quantum Cascade Lasers

M Razeghi, N Bandyopadhyay, Y Bai, Q Lu… - Optical Materials …, 2013 - opg.optica.org
Quantum cascade laser (QCL) is an important source of electromagnetic radiation in mid
infrared region. Recent research in mid-IR QCLs has resulted in record high wallplug …

Recent progress of quantum cascade laser research from 3 to 12 μm at the Center for Quantum Devices

M Razeghi, W Zhou, S Slivken, QY Lu, D Wu… - Applied …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
The quantum cascade laser (QCL) is becoming the leading laser source in the mid-infrared
(mid-IR) range, which contains two atmospheric transmission windows and many molecular …

Room temperature single-mode terahertz sources based on intracavity difference-frequency generation in quantum cascade lasers

QY Lu, N Bandyopadhyay, S Slivken, Y Bai… - Applied physics …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate room temperature single-mode THz emission at 4 THz based on intracavity
difference-frequency generation from mid-infrared dual-wavelength quantum cascade …

[HTML][HTML] Broadly tunable monolithic room-temperature terahertz quantum cascade laser sources

S Jung, A Jiang, Y Jiang, K Vijayraghavan… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Electrically pumped room-temperature semiconductor sources of tunable terahertz radiation
in 1–5 THz spectral range are highly desired to enable compact instrumentation for THz …