Spontaneous Emission and Lasing of a Two-Wavelength Quantum-Cascade Laser


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Abstract

The results of experiments on the fabrication (by molecular-beam epitaxy) and investigation of the heterostructures of a two-frequency quantum-cascade laser produced on the basis of a heteropair of In0.53Ga0.47As/Al0.48In0.52As solid solutions on an InP substrate are presented. The heterostructures contained quantum cascades emitting at a wavelength of 9.6 μm and cascades emitting at a wavelength of 7.6 μm. The high structural quality of the fabricated heterostructures is shown. The spontaneous emission and lasing spectra are investigated and the multimodal laser generation of stripe lasers at a wavelength of 7.6 μm is demonstrated.

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A. V. Babichev

ITMO University; Connector Optics LLC

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Email: andrey.babichev@connector-optics.com
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, 197101; St. Petersburg, 194292

A. G. Gladyshev

ITMO University; Connector Optics LLC

Email: andrey.babichev@connector-optics.com
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, 197101; St. Petersburg, 194292

A. S. Kurochkin

ITMO University

Email: andrey.babichev@connector-optics.com
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, 197101

E. S. Kolodeznyi

ITMO University

Email: andrey.babichev@connector-optics.com
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, 197101

V. N. Nevedomskii

Ioffe Institute

Email: andrey.babichev@connector-optics.com
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, 194021

L. Ya. Karachinsky

ITMO University; Connector Optics LLC; Ioffe Institute

Email: andrey.babichev@connector-optics.com
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, 197101; St. Petersburg, 194292; St. Petersburg, 194021

I. I. Novikov

ITMO University; Connector Optics LLC; Ioffe Institute

Email: andrey.babichev@connector-optics.com
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, 197101; St. Petersburg, 194292; St. Petersburg, 194021

A. N. Sofronov

Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

Email: andrey.babichev@connector-optics.com
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, 195251

A. Yu. Egorov

ITMO University; Connector Optics LLC

Email: andrey.babichev@connector-optics.com
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, 197101; St. Petersburg, 194292


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