Abstract

The authors report on tunable, miniaturized, two-segment coupled cavity quantum cascade lasers fabricated in a process with a single dry etch step. They observed controllable vernier-effect-based mode switching, induced by the spectral shift of the short cavity’s Fabry-Pérot mode comb due to Joule heating. With the help of this discontinuous tuning mechanism, single-mode operation with routinely ∼20dB side mode suppression ratio was achieved over a broad spectral range. The authors measured a quasicontinuous tuning range of 12cm−1 (138nm) and an entire single-mode tuning range of 16.5cm−1 (190nm), centered around 933cm−1 (10.7μm).

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