Abstract
This presentation presents the spectroscopic concepts and results enabled by arrays of Distributed Feedback (DFB) QCLs, with each element at a slightly different wavelength than its neighbor. In optical systems, such as standoff detectors and in situ gas analyzers, this increases analyte sensitivity and selectivity by broadening spectral source coverage and by allowing for extremely fast all-electronic wavelength tuning with no moving parts. The QCL array is also an increasingly essential solution to the power scaling of QCLs. This talk will present the QCL array concept and our packaging systems before moving to discuss molecular spectroscopy results for a) multigas sensing, b) standoff explosives detection, and c) power scaling for directed energy.
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