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3102
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1163

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1986 - IEEE Fellow For leadership in the development of high-power semiconductor lasers.

Overview

Dan Botez is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of engineering and chemistry, with specific expertise in electrical and electronic engineering, spectroscopy, atmospheric science, atomic and molecular physics, optics, and bioengineering.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Spectroscopy and Laser Applications
  • Laser Design and Applications
  • Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Analytical Chemistry and Sensors
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Dan Botez has contributed extensively to scientific literature, publishing research in several notable venues such as Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Crystal Growth, Optics Express, Photonics, and IEEE Photonics Journal.

Representative recent papers include:

  • High-Power Mid-Infrared (λ∼3-6 μm) Quantum Cascade Lasers, 2021, IEEE Photonics Journal
  • Carrier Leakage via Interface-Roughness Scattering Bridges Gap Between Theoretical and Experimental Internal Efficiencies of Quantum Cascade Lasers, 2020, Applied Physics Letters
  • Analysis of Interface Roughness in Strained InGaAs/AlInAs Quantum Cascade Laser Structures (λ ∼ 4.6 μm) by Atom Probe Tomography, 2022, Journal of Crystal Growth
  • Beam Stability of Buried-Heterostructure Quantum Cascade Lasers Employing HVPE Regrowth, 2021, Optics Express
  • Modeling with Graded Interfaces: Tool for Understanding and Designing Record-High Power and Efficiency Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers, 2024, Nanophotonics

Dan Botez frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • L. J. Mawst
  • Jeremy Kirch
  • Mikhail A. Belkin
  • B. Knipfer
  • Jae Ha Ryu

Botez's work has involved a range of publication venues with multiple contributions to Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Crystal Growth, Optics Express, Photonics, and IEEE Photonics Journal.

Dan Botez has been recognized as an IEEE Fellow since 1986 for leadership in the development of high-power semiconductor lasers.

Best Publications

  • Coupled-mode analysis of phase-locked injection laser arrays

    J. K. Butler;D. E. Ackley;D. Botez

  • High-power (>10 W) continuous-wave operation from 100-μm-aperture 0.97-μm-emitting Al-free diode lasers

    Ali Al-Muhanna;Luke J. Mawst;Dan Botez;Dmitri Z. Garbuzov

  • 8 W continuous wave front‐facet power from broad‐waveguide Al‐free 980 nm diode lasers

    L. J. Mawst;A. Bhattacharya;J. Lopez;D. Botez

  • Design considerations and analytical approximations for high continuous-wave power, broad-waveguide diode lasers

    Dan Botez

  • 73% CW power conversion efficiency at 50 W from 970 nm diode laser bars

    M. Kanskar;T. Earles;T.J. Goodnough;E. Stiers

  • Hochleistungshalbleiterlaser mit verteilter rückkopplung und schmaler spektraler emissionsbreite

    Dan Botez;L Earles;J Mawst

  • Phase-locked arrays of antiguides: model content and discrimination

    D. Botez;L.J. Mawst;G.L. Peterson;T.J. Roth

  • Quantum cascade laser on silicon

    Alexander Spott;Jon Peters;Michael L. Davenport;Eric J. Stanton

  • High‐power phase‐locked arrays of index‐guided diode lasers

    D. Botez;J. C. Connolly

  • High‐power, diffraction‐limited‐beam operation from phase‐locked diode‐laser arrays of closely spaced ‘‘leaky’’ waveguides (antiguides)

    D. Botez;L. Mawst;P. Hayashida;G. Peterson

  • Diode laser arrays

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  • Components for optical communications systems: A review

    D. Botez;G.J. Herskowitz

  • Resonant optical transmission and coupling in phase‐locked diode laser arrays of antiguides: The resonant optical waveguide array

    D. Botez;L. J. Mawst;G. Peterson;T. J. Roth

  • cw high-power single-mode operation of constricted double-heterojunction AlGaAs lasers with a large optical cavity

    Dan Botez

  • Temperature sensitivity of the electro-optical characteristics for mid-infrared (λ = 3–16 μm)-emitting quantum cascade lasers

    Dan Botez;Chun Chieh Chang;Luke J. Mawst

  • Intersubband quantum-box semiconductor lasers

    Chia-Fu Hsu;Jeong-Seok O;P. Zory;D. Botez

  • Temperature dependence of the key electro-optical characteristics for midinfrared emitting quantum cascade lasers

    D. Botez;S. Kumar;J. C. Shin;L. J. Mawst

  • High-power monolithic phase-locked arrays of antiguided semiconductor diode lasers

    D. Botez

  • Watt‐range, coherent, uniphase powers from phase‐locked arrays of antiguided diode lasers

    D. Botez;M. Jansen;L. J. Mawst;G. Peterson

  • 66% CW wallplug efficiency from Al-free 0.98 [micro sign]m-emitting diode lasers

    D. Botez;L.J. Mawst;A. Bhattacharya;J. Lopez

  • Single lobe surface emitting complex coupled distributed feedback semiconductor laser

    Dan Botez;Masoud J. Kasraian

Frequent Co-Authors

Luke J. Mawst
Luke J. Mawst University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jerry R. Meyer
Jerry R. Meyer United States Naval Research Laboratory
Igor Vurgaftman
Igor Vurgaftman United States Naval Research Laboratory
Thomas F. Kuech
Thomas F. Kuech University of Wisconsin–Madison
John E. Bowers
John E. Bowers University of California, Santa Barbara
William W. Bewley
William W. Bewley United States Naval Research Laboratory
Claire F. Gmachl
Claire F. Gmachl Princeton University
Mikhail A. Belkin
Mikhail A. Belkin Technical University of Munich
Max G. Lagally
Max G. Lagally University of Wisconsin–Madison
Daniel Wasserman
Daniel Wasserman The University of Texas at Austin

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