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Title: Distributed feedback interband cascade lasers with top grating and corrugated sidewalls

Abstract

Here, distributed feedback (DFB) interband cascade lasers (ICLs) with a 1st order top surface grating were designed and fabricated. Partially corrugated sidewalls were implemented to suppress high order lateral modes. The DFB ICLs have 4 mm long and 4.5 μm wide ridge waveguides and are mounted epi-up on AlN submounts. We demonstrated a continuous-wave (CW) DFB ICL, from a first wafer which has a large detuning of the gain peak from the DFB wavelength, with a side mode suppression ratio of 30 dB. With proper matching of grating feedback and the gain peak wavelength for the second wafer, a DFB ICL was demonstrated with a maximum CW output power and a maximum wall plug efficiency reaching 42 mW and 2%, respectively, at 25 °C. The lasing wavelengths of both lasers are around 3.3 μm at 25 °C.

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  1. Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Jessup, MD (United States)
  2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
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Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, Jessup, MD (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
Contributing Org.:
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center
OSTI Identifier:
1431012
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1429946; OSTI ID: 1431011; OSTI ID: 1434328
Grant/Contract Number:  
AR0000547; AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Applied Physics Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 112; Journal Issue: 13; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; Interband cascade lasers; Distributed Feedback; methane sensing; Interband cascade lasers, Distributed Feedback, methane sensing

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Xie, Feng, Stocker, Michael, Pham, John, Towner, Frederick, Shen, Kun, Wang, Jie, and Lascola, Kevin. Distributed feedback interband cascade lasers with top grating and corrugated sidewalls. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1063/1.5009741.
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Xie, Feng, Stocker, Michael, Pham, John, Towner, Frederick, Shen, Kun, Wang, Jie, & Lascola, Kevin. Distributed feedback interband cascade lasers with top grating and corrugated sidewalls. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5009741
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Xie, Feng, Stocker, Michael, Pham, John, Towner, Frederick, Shen, Kun, Wang, Jie, and Lascola, Kevin. Mon . "Distributed feedback interband cascade lasers with top grating and corrugated sidewalls". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5009741. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1431012.
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@article{osti_1431012,
title = {Distributed feedback interband cascade lasers with top grating and corrugated sidewalls},
author = {Xie, Feng and Stocker, Michael and Pham, John and Towner, Frederick and Shen, Kun and Wang, Jie and Lascola, Kevin},
abstractNote = {Here, distributed feedback (DFB) interband cascade lasers (ICLs) with a 1st order top surface grating were designed and fabricated. Partially corrugated sidewalls were implemented to suppress high order lateral modes. The DFB ICLs have 4 mm long and 4.5 μm wide ridge waveguides and are mounted epi-up on AlN submounts. We demonstrated a continuous-wave (CW) DFB ICL, from a first wafer which has a large detuning of the gain peak from the DFB wavelength, with a side mode suppression ratio of 30 dB. With proper matching of grating feedback and the gain peak wavelength for the second wafer, a DFB ICL was demonstrated with a maximum CW output power and a maximum wall plug efficiency reaching 42 mW and 2%, respectively, at 25 °C. The lasing wavelengths of both lasers are around 3.3 μm at 25 °C.},
doi = {10.1063/1.5009741},
journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
number = 13,
volume = 112,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Mar 26 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Mon Mar 26 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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Fig. 1. Fig. 1.: (a) The waveguide loss of waveguide modes in a waveguide with full set of corrugated sidewall, as function of the depth of sidewall corrugation. The dash lines are linear fitting curves. The inset shows a schematic drawing of the design of combining a sampled grating and a partialmore » corrugated sidewall. (b) The waveguide loss of fundamental mode and the 1st order mode in a waveguide with full set of corrugated sidewall, as function of period of corrugation. The dash lines are linear fitting curves.« less
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