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We present the development of a broad gain quantum cascade active region. By appropriate cascade design and using a symmetric active region arrangement, we engineer a flat gain and increase the total modal gain in the desired spectral range. Grating-coupled external cavity quantum cascade lasers using this symmetric active region are tunable from 7.6 to 11.4 μm with a peak optical output power of 1 W and an average output power of 15 mW at room-temperature. With a tuning of over 432 cm−1, this single source covers an emission range of over 39% around the center frequency.
We present a model to a priori calculate the temperature and field dependent intersubband linewidth of the optical transition in quantum cascade laser designs. Besides intra- and intersubband lifetime broadening, it comprises interface roughness scattering based on the approach of Tsujino et al. [Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 062113 (2005)]. We verified our model with experimental data of quantum cascade lasers having different linewidths. Excellent agreement with the experiment was found for the two-phonon resonance design. Linewidths are slightly overestimated in the bound-to-continuum design. Differential gain and threshold current density are in excellent agreement for the two-phonon resonance design. Although the slope efficiency is somewhat underestimated at low temperatures, there is still reasonable agreement with the experiment.
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