Journal
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
Volume 23, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2017.2699139
Keywords
Quantum cascade lasers; laser stability; instabilities and chaos; ultrafast nonlinear optics
Categories
Funding
- Swiss National Science Foundation [IZ73Z0_152761]
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (Republic of Serbia) [III 45010]
- COST ACTIONs [BM1205, MP1204, MP1406]
- European Union's Horizon research and innovation programme (SUPER-TWIN) [686731]
- Canton of Neuchatel
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [IZ73Z0_152761] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
Ask authors/readers for more resources
We show that low-threshold Risken-Nummedal-Graham-Haken (RNGH) instabilities in quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) occur due to a combined effect of the carrier coherence and population grating induced in the gain medium. QCLs with a few mm long cavity exhibit intermittent RNGH self-pulsations while regular self-pulsations are possible in short-cavity QCLs, with the cavity length of 100 mu m or smaller. Transient behavior to RNGH self-pulsations in short-cavity QCLs shows features resembling cooperative superradiance which opens a practical way of achieving ultrashort pulse production regimes in the mid-infrared spectral range.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available