Broadening and splitting of emission spectra of a GaInAs/AlInAs quantum cascade laser in a quantising magnetic field

We have studied the effect of a relatively weak quantising magnetic field on emission spectra of a GaInAs/AlInAs quantum cascade laser near 10 K. The results demonstrate that, as the magnetic field induction increases to 7 T, the spectra broaden (to 5 meV) and split into three emission bands. As a result, we observe simultaneously up to 80 longitudinal lasing modes in the three bands and the integrated laser output intensity increases 70 times. The presence of bands in the emission spectra can be accounted for in terms of the magnetic quantisation of the laser levels into spinsplit Landau levels. The increase in emission intensity is attributable primarily to phonon resonance adjustment in a magnetic field.