Optoelectronic Devices

Detectors and Semiconductor Lasers

Infrared photodetectors 

Development of components and manufacturing processes for
high-performance photodetectors

SWIR (≤ 1,7 µm)—InGaAs/InP-SPADs

Single photon detection at wavelengths around 15xx nm

  • LiDAR
  • Quantum Key Distribution

MWIR (3–5 μm) to eSWIR (≤ 2.6 μm)—Type II superlattice

High Operating Temperature Infrared Imaging (SWaP-C)

  • Mono- and bispectral thermal imaging devices with the highest spatial resolution
  • Event-based and hyperspectral imaging

 

Disk lasers and quantum cascade lasers 

Development and production of optically pumped semiconductor wafer lasers and quantum cascade lasers for sensors, communication, measurement and medical technology along the semiconductor value chain (from design and material to system)

Optically pumped semiconductor disk lasers

  • Emission range: 1,9–2,8 µm
  • Class A laser with precisely tunable emission wavelength
    • Ideal pumping source for solid-state lasers inside and outside resonators as well as for nonlinear optical crystals

Quantum cascade lasers

  • Wavelength range: 4–12 µm
  • Scan frequency up to 1 kHz
  • Broadly tunable
  • Compact and combinable modules 

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Semiconductor Lasers

Fraunhofer IAF develops III-V semiconductor lasers and components for applications in sensor technology, communications, and measurement and medical technology. 

 

Photodetectors

Fraunhofer IAF develops components and manufacturing processes for high-performance infrared and UV-C photodetectors.

 

Services along the semiconductor value chain

Services in epitaxy, process technology, characterization as well as device manufacturing

 

Infrared Laser Spectroscopy

Our quantum cascade lasers identify chemical substances in real time: solid, liquid or gaseous chemical substances are detected in only one millisecond.

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