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By applying a high-reflectivity metal coating to the rear facet of a GaAs-based quantum cascade laser operating at λ∼11.5 µm, the threshold current has been reduced by 11% at 260K and pulsed operation of the epilayer-up mounted device was extended from 283 to 294 K.
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Farmer et al. (2002) studied this question.
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