Cascade Laser

Continuous-Wave Room-Temperature Indium Arsenide Quantum Cascade Laser

University of Montpellier in France claims the first continuous-wave (cw) operation at room temperature of a 15μm indium arsenide (InAs) quantum cascade laser (QCL) [Alexei N. Baranov et al, Optics Express, vol. 24, p18799, 2016]. "To ...

Tags: University of Montpellier, InAs, MBE

Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser Output Power in CW Mode Almost Doubled to 0.23W

By optimizing the material growth and manufacturing process, researchers at the China Academy of Engineering Physics' Research Center of Laser Fusion and the Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics in Beijing have nearly ...

Tags: Cascade Laser, ceramics

UCSB-LED Team Reports First Quantum Cascade Laser on Silicon

A team led by Alexander Spott of University of California, Santa Barbara – in collaboration with the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the University of Wisconsin, Madison – has fabricated what is said to be the first ...

Mid-IR Laser Sales Growing 4X Faster Than Total Laser Market

The mid-IR laser market is relatively small when compared to the total laser market, but it is growing almost four times faster than the laser market as a whole, according to market analyst Strategies Unlimited. This growth is driven by ...

Tags: MiD-IR Laser, Total Laser Market, Growing

Mid-IR Laser Sales Growing 4X Faster Than Total Laser Market

The mid-IR laser market is relatively small when compared to the total laser market, but it is growing almost four times faster than the laser market as a whole, according to market analyst Strategies Unlimited. This growth is driven by ...

Tags: MiD-IR Laser, Total Laser Market, Growing

Efficient Combination of Quantum Cascade Laser and Detectors

Technische Universit Wien (TU Wien) in Austria has improved its bi-functional 6.8μm quantum cascade laser and detector (QCLD) technology [Benedikt Schwarz et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, p071104, 2015]. It is hoped that monolithic ...

Tags: Quantum cascade detectors InP InGaAs MBE

The UK's University Is Claimed to Be The World's Most Powerful Terahertz Laser Chip

The UK’s University of Leeds has fabricated what is claimed to be the world’s most powerful terahertz (THz) laser chip, exceeding 1 Watt output power from a quantum cascade laser (QCL) (Lianhe Li et al, ‘Terahertz quantum ...

Tags: Laser Chip, Electronics