Novel Heat Removal Waveguide Structure for High Performance Quantum Cascade Lasers

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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9613-6110
 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0269-8433
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2814-3658

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2008-05-04

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Talukder, Muhammad A., Fow-Sen Choa, Curtis R. Menyuk, Kale J. Franz, Scott S. Howard, and Claire F. Gmachl. “Novel Heat Removal Waveguide Structure for High Performance Quantum Cascade Lasers.” In Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies (2008), Paper JThA5, JThA5. Optica Publishing Group, 2008. https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=CLEO-2008-JThA5.

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Gold
Optical confinement
Lasers
Multilayers
UMBC Optical Fiber Communications Laboratory
UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF)
Anisotropy
Finite element method
UMBC Computational Photonics Laboratory

Abstract

We study the heat removal capability of different core structures in quantum cascade lasers. We find that due to non-isotropic conductivity, core structures with higher depth dissipate heat faster than the conventional higher-width structures.