Patterned Gallium Arsenide Devices for Infrared Countermeasures

The US Air Force has a need for improved tunable laser sources—both in the midinfrared region, for developing infrared countermeasure (IRCM) applications, and in the longinfrared region, for addressing an increasing variety of threat sensors. Since few direct lasers exist in these spectral regions, scientists generally use nonlinear frequency conversion techniques to convert the output of available lasers into the desired longer