Room-temperature operation of 3.6 μm In0.53Ga0.47As/Al0.48In0.52As quantum cascade laser sources based on intracavity second harmonic generation

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Jang, M. [1 ]
Adams, R. W. [1 ]
Chen, J. X. [2 ,3 ]
Charles, W. O. [2 ,3 ]
Gmachl, C. [2 ,3 ]
Cheng, L. W. [4 ]
Choa, F-S [4 ]
Belkin, M. A. [1 ]
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[1] Univ Texas Austin, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Austin, TX 78758 USA
[2] Princeton Univ, Dept Elect Engn, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[3] Princeton Univ, MIRTHE, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[4] Univ Maryland Baltimore Cty, Dept Comp Sci & Elect Engn, Baltimore, MD 21250 USA
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10.1063/1.3491219
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We discuss a design of short-wavelength quantum cascade laser sources based on intracavity second harmonic generation. A passive heterostructure tailored for giant optical nonlinearity is integrated on top of an active region and patterned for quasiphase matching. We demonstrate operation of lambda approximate to 3.6 mu m lattice-matched InGaAs/AlInAs/InP sources with approximately 6 mu W of second-harmonic output at room temperature and conversion efficiency of approximately 130 mu W/W-2. Threshold current densities of devices with a nonlinear section were similar to that of the reference lasers without the nonlinear section. c 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3491219]
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