• Quantum-cascade lasers (QCLs) are semiconductor lasers that emit in the mid- to far-infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and were first demonstrated...
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    Canton of Neuchâtel. The company was the first to commercialize the quantum-cascade laser (QCL) for scientific, industrial and medical use. The company has...
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  • intracavity elements. Quantum cascade laser (QCL) is a construction of such alternative. It is a solid-state semiconductor laser that can operate continuously...
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    laser efficiency have also been demonstrated by reducing the quantum well layer to a quantum wire or to a sea of quantum dots. In a quantum cascade laser...
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    aluminum antimonide (AlSb), and related alloys. These lasers are similar to quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) in several ways. Like QCLs, ICLs employ the concept...
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  • A quantum-well laser is a laser diode in which the active region of the device is so narrow that quantum confinement occurs. Laser diodes are formed in...
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  • Federico Capasso (category Laser researchers)
    1949) is an applied physicist and is one of the inventors of the quantum cascade laser during his work at Bell Laboratories. He is currently on the faculty...
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  • Laser direct infrared imaging (LDIR) is an infrared microscopy architecture that utilizes a tunable Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) as the IR source. This...
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  • A distributed-feedback laser (DFB) is a type of laser diode, quantum-cascade laser or optical-fiber laser where the active region of the device contains...
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    imaging devices Stimulated emission, used in: injection laser diodes quantum cascade lasers Lossev effect, or radiative recombination, used in: light-emitting...
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