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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/International Quantum Electronics Conference
  • OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2009),
  • paper CPDB5
  • https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO.2009.CPDB5

Low divergence, single-lobed, surface emission from THz photonic-crystal quantum cascade lasers

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Abstract

We demonstrate full control of the spectral and spatial emission properties of terahertz quantum cascade lasers using metallic photonic-crystals for lateral confinement. Single-mode, surface-emission is obtained at a frequency of 2.8–2.9 THz using a photonic-crystal design with a square lattice geometry. The resonator quality factor is then optimised, using a graded photonic-crystal architecture, and this leads to an increased maximum operating temperature of 151K. Furthermore, the introduction of a carefully designed pi-shift yields single-lobed surface emission (~ 12° × 8°), with a peak output power of 5 mW at 78K.

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