Abstract
A grating-coupled surface-emitting mid-IR optical pre-amplifier was fabricated from a quantum cascade laser wafer and demonstrated >15-dB small signal gain with ASE power <−144dBm. The Bragg grating served as output-coupler, ASE-filter, and wavelength division multiplexer.
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