Concept of the InGaAs Plasmonic Waveguide for Quantum Cascade Laser Applications
Quantum cascade lasers are sophisticated devices mostly based on InGaAs/AlInAs/InP heterostructures to improve thermal performance. Their structure consists of a core containing hundreds or even thousands of thin layers, covered on both sides with thick cladding waveguides. Such a laser design creat...
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| description | Quantum cascade lasers are sophisticated devices mostly based on InGaAs/AlInAs/InP heterostructures to improve thermal performance. Their structure consists of a core containing hundreds or even thousands of thin layers, covered on both sides with thick cladding waveguides. Such a laser design creates enormous stresses in the core and can cause degradation of the entire device. An alternative to the thick InP claddings are thin, highly doped InGaAs layers used as plasmonic waveguides. This solution allows to achieve a mode confinement above 50% even at only 150 nm of the waveguide layer, which is extremely difficult in the case of standard designs. The article presents theoretical simulations concerning the influence of the InGaAs plasmonic layer on the mode confinement. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d5bf68f18aa9416fbbdd34343fa0e3342023-05-14T20:50:13ZengVSB-Technical University of OstravaAdvances in Electrical and Electronic Engineering1336-13761804-31192021-01-0119435035410.15598/aeee.v19i4.40991136Concept of the InGaAs Plasmonic Waveguide for Quantum Cascade Laser ApplicationsAdriana Lozinska0Mikolaj Badura1Beata Sciana2Department of Microelectronics and Nanotechnology, Faculty of Microsystem Electronics and Photonics, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Janiszewskiego 11/17, 50-372 Wroclaw, PolandDepartment of Microelectronics and Nanotechnology, Faculty of Microsystem Electronics and Photonics, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Janiszewskiego 11/17, 50-372 Wroclaw, PolandDepartment of Microelectronics and Nanotechnology, Faculty of Microsystem Electronics and Photonics, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Janiszewskiego 11/17, 50-372 Wroclaw, PolandQuantum cascade lasers are sophisticated devices mostly based on InGaAs/AlInAs/InP heterostructures to improve thermal performance. Their structure consists of a core containing hundreds or even thousands of thin layers, covered on both sides with thick cladding waveguides. Such a laser design creates enormous stresses in the core and can cause degradation of the entire device. An alternative to the thick InP claddings are thin, highly doped InGaAs layers used as plasmonic waveguides. This solution allows to achieve a mode confinement above 50% even at only 150 nm of the waveguide layer, which is extremely difficult in the case of standard designs. The article presents theoretical simulations concerning the influence of the InGaAs plasmonic layer on the mode confinement.http://advances.utc.sk/index.php/AEEE/article/view/4099ingaaslow-pressure metalorganic vapour-phase epitaxyplasmonic waveguideqcl. |
| spellingShingle | Adriana Lozinska Mikolaj Badura Beata Sciana Concept of the InGaAs Plasmonic Waveguide for Quantum Cascade Laser Applications Advances in Electrical and Electronic Engineering ingaas low-pressure metalorganic vapour-phase epitaxy plasmonic waveguide qcl. |
| title | Concept of the InGaAs Plasmonic Waveguide for Quantum Cascade Laser Applications |
| title_full | Concept of the InGaAs Plasmonic Waveguide for Quantum Cascade Laser Applications |
| title_fullStr | Concept of the InGaAs Plasmonic Waveguide for Quantum Cascade Laser Applications |
| title_full_unstemmed | Concept of the InGaAs Plasmonic Waveguide for Quantum Cascade Laser Applications |
| title_short | Concept of the InGaAs Plasmonic Waveguide for Quantum Cascade Laser Applications |
| title_sort | concept of the ingaas plasmonic waveguide for quantum cascade laser applications |
| topic | ingaas low-pressure metalorganic vapour-phase epitaxy plasmonic waveguide qcl. |
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