Abstract
We demonstrate room temperature, continuous-wave operation of top grating based surface-emitting distributed feedback quantum cascade lasers at $\lambda \sim 4.8~\mu \text{m}$ . The second-order metal/semiconductor grating structure allows efficient surface emission for the transverse-magnetic-polarized light. The CW output power from the substrate facet reached 94 mW at 25 °C, with a low threshold current density of 1.21 kA/cm2. Single-mode emission with a side-mode suppression ratio about 30 dB is continuously tunable by the heat sink temperature or injection current. A far-field radiation pattern with a small divergence angle of $0.58 {^{\circ }} \times 16.2^{\circ }$ is obtained. Our work may contribute to the fabrication approach for substrate-emitting distributed feedback lasers based on a very simple processing.
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