Abstract
We report the pulsed, room-temperature operation of a surface-plasmon quantum cascade laser at an operating wavelength of ≈ 7.5 μm. Improved performance of the surface-plasmon waveguide has been obtained by using silver as a plasmon-carrying layer.
© 2006 Optical Society of America
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