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公开(公告)号:JP2000012983A
公开(公告)日:2000-01-14
申请号:JP16456299
申请日:1999-06-11
Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC
Inventor: BAILLARGEON JAMES NELSON , CAPASSO FEDERICO , CHO ALFRED Y , GMACHI CLAIRE F , HUTCHINSON ALBERT LEE , SIVCO DEBORAH LEE , TREDICUCCI ALESSANDRO
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily transport a large quantity of electrons through the injector of an injector region in each repeated unit having the injector region and an active area by sympathetically vibrating the low energy level of one active region with the high energy level of its downstream-side adjacent active area. SOLUTION: A quantum cascade laser 10 is composed of an InP substrate 11, a lower optically immobilized region 12, a waveguide core region 13, an upper optically immobilized area 14, and upper and lower contacts 15 and 16 with which the laser 10 is electrically brought into contact. The waveguide core region 13 is provided with many similar repeated units and each repeated unit is provided with an injector region and an active region. The injector region is made to sympathetically vibrate the lower energy level in the active region with the high energy level of the active region of its directly adjacent repeated unit on the downstream side under an appropriate electric bias, and the movement of charge carriers is carried out easily by selecting the quantum well layer and/or barrier layer of the injector region.
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公开(公告)号:JPH10321951A
公开(公告)日:1998-12-04
申请号:JP4360898
申请日:1998-02-25
Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC
Inventor: BAILLARGEON JAMES NELSON , CAPASSO FEDERICO , CHO ALFRED YI , FAIST JEROME , GMACHI CLAIRE F , SIRTORI CARLO , SIVCO DEBORAH LEE
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a QC(quantum cascade) laser, which operates at a temperature higher than or equal to a ultra-low temperature, performs single-mode laser radiation, and makes continuous modulations possible over a wide wavelength region. SOLUTION: A quantum cascade laser 10 is provided with a first clad region 11, a second clad region 13, a core region 12 arranged between the regions 11 and 13, electrical contacts 14, 15 for making a current flow in a laser, and a grating structure 16 for giving dispersion feedback. A grating structure 16 is so isolated from the core region such that electromagnetic radiation in a confined laser mode has intensity which is non-zero in the grating structure 16. The grating structure 16 is constituted so as to perform single-mode laser radiation.
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公开(公告)号:JP2002076516A
公开(公告)日:2002-03-15
申请号:JP2001205754
申请日:2001-07-06
Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC
Inventor: BAILLARGEON JAMES NELSON , CAPASSO FEDERICO , CHO ALFRED Y , GMACHI CLAIRE F , HUTCHINSON ALBERT LEE , HWANG HAROLD YOONSUNG , PAIELLA ROBERTO , SERGENT ARTHUR M , SIVCO DEBORAH LEE , ALESSANDRO TOREDIKUCCHI
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide ability for finely controlling a central wavelength through waveguide coating without introducing a loss or non-linear refraction factor significant for dielectric materials or waveguide process having a low absorption rate within an intermediate IR range, and having high insulation durability for enabling high-power/high-temperature operation in ISB laser technology, through low loss mesa dielectric coating for providing efficient heat conduction through the side wall of mesa, by laterally sealing light without increasing threshold current density for lasing and further through low loss coating on a comparatively narrow mesa. SOLUTION: In a mesa structure semiconductor laser 10, a stripe structure contact 18 is specified on the top of the mesa, and patterned dielectric coating to be used for providing significant waveguide property contains chalcogenide glass 16. Especially, the application to an inter-sub-band (quantum cascade, for example,) is described.
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公开(公告)号:JP2001320136A
公开(公告)日:2001-11-16
申请号:JP2001136193
申请日:2001-05-07
Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC
Inventor: BAILLARGEON JAMES NELSON , CAPASSO FEDERICO , YI CHO ALFRED , GMACHL CLAIRE F , HUTCHINSON ALBERT LEE , PAIELLA ROBERT , SIVCO DEBORAH LEE
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a laser system where a self-mode synchronization is realized by laser transition itself. SOLUTION: A quantum cascade laser which utilizes inter-subband transition having a large nonlinear refractive index generates pico-second pulse of intermediate infrared light. A Kerr lens mode synchronization of QC laser is realized by nonlinearity in refractive index caused by laser transition is subband. The throttle in a cavity which is required for converting a QC self-convergence mechanism into loss modulation is realized with such QC laser waveguide as; (1) a layer with large optical loss which is separated from a semiconductor material by a relatively thin dielectrics layer, or (2) a relatively long laser waveguide. In an application example, a layer of large loss for mode connection is formed of metal, and so arranged as to constitute one of electrodes of a laser device.
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公开(公告)号:JP2000068611A
公开(公告)日:2000-03-03
申请号:JP22549899
申请日:1999-08-09
Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC
Inventor: ANSELM KLAUS ALEXANDER , BAILLARGEON JAMES NELSON , CHO ALFRED Y
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce temperature dependency of laser characteristics by a method wherein numerous barriers include at least one doped barrier layer and it is insulated from an adjacent quantum well layer by an undoped barrier layer. SOLUTION: An active region includes numerous N-times repeated units 12 laminated between internal clads 20, 22 wherein each repeated unit includes a quantum well region adjacent to a barrier region 12.5. An active region of an MQW laser is modified so that each barrier region 12.5 includes numerous barrier layers. Among numerous barrier regions respectively, one barrier layer 12.3 is doped, while other two spacer barrier layers 12.2, 12.4 are undoped, whereby the doped barrier layer 12.3 is insulated from an adjacent quantum well region 12.1. The doped barrier layer 12.3 is preferably a thin delta-doped layer. On the other hand, the spacer barrier layers serve to essentially prevent a part of dopant atoms from diffusing into a quantum well.
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公开(公告)号:DE69900427D1
公开(公告)日:2001-12-13
申请号:DE69900427
申请日:1999-05-26
Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC
Inventor: BAILLARGEON JAMES NELSON , CAPASSO FEDERICO , CHO ALFRED YI , GMACHL CLAIRE F , HUTCHINSON ALBERT LEE , SIVCO DEBORAH LEE , TREDICUCCI ALESSANDRO
Abstract: A novel quantum cascade (QC) laser comprises a multiplicity of identical repeat units, with each repeat unit comprising an active region and an injector region. The injector region comprises quantum wells and barriers, selected to facilitate, under appropriate bias, resonant carrier transport from a lower energy level of a given active region to an upper energy level of an adjacent downstream active region. Carrier transition from the energy level to a lower energy level of an active region results in emission of infrared radiation. The laser is advangeously used in, e.g., a measurement system for detection of trace compounds in air.
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公开(公告)号:CA2349263C
公开(公告)日:2005-01-11
申请号:CA2349263
申请日:2001-05-29
Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC
Inventor: GMACHL CLAIRE F , CAPASSO FEDERICO , PAIELLA ROBERTO , SERGENT ARTHUR MIKE , TREDICUCCI ALESSANDRO , CHO ALFRED YI , SIVCO DEBORAH LEE , HUTCHINSON ALBERT LEE , BAILLARGEON JAMES NELSON , HWANG HAROLD YOONSUNG
Abstract: In a mesa geometry semiconductor laser, a patterned dielectric coating used to define the stripe geometry contact on the top the mesa and to provide significant waveguiding comprises a chalcogenide glass. Applications to intersubband (e.g., quantum cascade) lasers are specifically described.
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公开(公告)号:DE69900427T2
公开(公告)日:2002-06-27
申请号:DE69900427
申请日:1999-05-26
Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC
Inventor: BAILLARGEON JAMES NELSON , CAPASSO FEDERICO , CHO ALFRED YI , GMACHL CLAIRE F , HUTCHINSON ALBERT LEE , SIVCO DEBORAH LEE , TREDICUCCI ALESSANDRO
Abstract: A novel quantum cascade (QC) laser comprises a multiplicity of identical repeat units, with each repeat unit comprising an active region and an injector region. The injector region comprises quantum wells and barriers, selected to facilitate, under appropriate bias, resonant carrier transport from a lower energy level of a given active region to an upper energy level of an adjacent downstream active region. Carrier transition from the energy level to a lower energy level of an active region results in emission of infrared radiation. The laser is advangeously used in, e.g., a measurement system for detection of trace compounds in air.
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公开(公告)号:CA2342080A1
公开(公告)日:2001-11-08
申请号:CA2342080
申请日:2001-03-27
Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC
Inventor: BAILLARGEON JAMES NELSON , SIVCO DEBORAH LEE , CHO ALFRED YI , CAPASSO FEDERICO , HUTCHINSON ALBERT LEE , GMACHL CLAIRE F , PAIELLA ROBERTO
Abstract: A self mode-locking (SML) mid-infrared (5 and 8 .mu.m) quantum cascade laser is formed that comprises both a relatively thin dielectric insulating layer (i.e., less than one-half micron in thickness) overlaid with an optically highly lossy (i.e., absorbing) layer, with a relatively long (approximately 3.5 mm) optical waveguide. Evidence of mode-locking is obtained from the measured optical spectra and corresponding interferograms, as well as from the rf spectra of the photocurrent detected with a fast quantum-well infrared photodetector. A n estimate for the pulse width of approximately 3 psec is inferred from these data.
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公开(公告)号:DE60114286T2
公开(公告)日:2006-07-13
申请号:DE60114286
申请日:2001-04-30
Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC
Inventor: BAILLARGEON JAMES NELSON , CAPASSO FEDERICO , CHO ALFRED YI , GMACHL CLAIRE F , HUTCHINSON ALBERT LEE , PAIELLA ROBERT , SIVCO DEBORAH LEE
Abstract: A self-mode-locking (SML) mid-infrared (5 and 8 mu m) quantum cascade laser is formed that comprises both a relatively thin dielectric insulating layer (18) (i.e., less than one-half micron in thickness) overlaid with an optically highly lossy (i.e., absorbing) layer (20), with a relatively long (approximately 3.5 mm) optical waveguide. Evidence of mode-locking is obtained from the measured optical spectra and corresponding interferograms, as well as from the rf spectra of the photocurrent detected with a fast quantum-well infrared photodetector. An estimate for the pulse width of approximately 3 psec is inferred from these data.
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