Discover how mid-infrared and terahertz photonics has been revolutionized in this comprehensive overview of state-of-the art quantum cascade lasers (QCLs). Combining real-world examples with expert guidance, it provides a thorough treatment of practical applications, including high-power continuous-wave QCLs, frequency-comb devices, quantum-electronic transport and thermal transport modeling, and beam shaping in QCLs. With a focus on recent developments, such as frequency noise and frequency stabilization of QCLs, grating-outcoupled surface-emitting mid-infrared QCLs, coherent-power scaling of mid-IR and THz QCLs, metasurface-based surface-emitting THz QCLs, self-mixing in QCLs, and THz QCL sources based on difference-frequency generation, it also features detailed theoretical explanations of means for efficiency maximization, design criteria for high-power continuous-wave operation of QCLs, and QCL thermal modeling, enabling you to improve performance of current and future devices. Paving the way for new applications and further advancements, this is an invaluable resource for academics, researchers, and practitioners in electrical, opto-electronic, and photonic engineering.

A state-of-the-art overview of this rapidly expanding field, featuring fundamental theory, practical applications, and real-life examples.

About the Author
Dan Botez is a Philip Dunham Reed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, He is the recipient of the 2010 Optica Nick Holonyak Jr. Award, and a Fellow of Optica and the IEEE. Mikhail A. Belkin is the Chair of Semiconductor Technology at the Walter Schottky Institute, Technical University of Munich. He is a recipient of the 2015 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel research award among others. He is a Fellow of Optica and SPIE.


Book Information
ISBN 9781108427937
Author Dan Botez
Format Hardback
Page Count 608
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 1070g
Dimensions(mm) 251mm * 175mm * 33mm