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As a result of recent progress in the materials and device technology of tunable lead-salt diode lasers, including the use of stripe-geometry and heterostructures, CW output powers as high as 1/3 m W have been obtained and CW operation has been observed at temperatures considerably higher than previously. In addition to their already demonstrated capabilities in ultra-high resolution molecular absorption spectroscopy, the high — power capability should extend the use of these lasers to additional applications including saturation spectroscopy, heterodyne radiometry and high sensitivity absorption measurements with the spectrophone technique.
This work was sponsored by the Department of the Air Force.
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Melngailis, I. (1974). Advances in Tunable Lead-Salt Semiconductor Lasers. In: Brewer, R.G., Mooradian, A. (eds) Laser Spectroscopy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4517-6_17
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