Quantum cascade laser frequency combs

J Faist, G Villares, G Scalari, M Rösch, C Bonzon… - …, 2016 - degruyter.com
It was recently demonstrated that broadband quantum cascade lasers can operate as
frequency combs. As such, they operate under direct electrical pumping at both mid-infrared …

Frequency comb generation by Bloch gain induced giant Kerr nonlinearity

N Opačak, SD Cin, J Hillbrand, B Schwarz - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Optical nonlinearities are known to coherently couple amplitude and phase of light, which
can result in the formation of periodic waveforms. Such waveforms are referred to as optical …

Tunable, grating‐gated, graphene‐on‐polyimide terahertz modulators

A Di Gaspare, EAA Pogna, L Salemi… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
An electrically switchable graphene terahertz (THz) modulator with a tunable‐by‐design
optical bandwidth is presented and it is exploited to compensate the cavity dispersion of a …

[HTML][HTML] Mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy with quantum cascade lasers

J Hayden, M Geiser, M Gianella, R Horvath, A Hugi… - APL Photonics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Since its invention in 1994, the quantum cascade laser (QCL) has emerged as a versatile
light source of wavelength 4–12 µm, covering most of the mid-and long-wavelength infrared …

Graphene‐coupled terahertz semiconductor lasers for enhanced passive frequency comb operation

H Li, M Yan, W Wan, T Zhou, K Zhou, Z Li… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Optical frequency combs, consisting of well‐controlled equidistant frequency lines, have
been widely used in precision spectroscopy and metrology. Terahertz combs have been …

Engineering the spectral bandwidth of quantum cascade laser frequency combs

M Beiser, N Opačak, J Hillbrand, G Strasser… - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) facilitate compact optical frequency comb sources that
operate in the mid-infrared and terahertz spectral regions, where many molecules have their …

Tunable and compact dispersion compensation of broadband THz quantum cascade laser frequency combs

FP Mezzapesa, V Pistore, K Garrasi, L Li, AG Davies… - Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Miniaturized frequency combs (FCs) can be self-generated at terahertz (THz) frequencies
through four-wave mixing in the cavity of a quantum cascade laser (QCL). To date, however …

[HTML][HTML] Frequency combs induced by optical feedback and harmonic order tunability in quantum cascade lasers

C Silvestri, X Qi, T Taimre, AD Rakić - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
This study investigates the interaction between frequency combs and optical feedback
effects in Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCLs). The theoretical analysis reveals new …

Picosecond pulses from a mid-infrared interband cascade laser

J Hillbrand, M Beiser, AM Andrews, H Detz, R Weih… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The generation of mid-infrared pulses in monolithic and electrically pumped devices is of
great interest for mobile spectroscopic instruments. The gain dynamics of interband cascade …

Gapless tuning of quantum cascade laser frequency combs with external cavity optical feedback

CC Teng, J Westberg, G Wysocki - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We present the operation of quantum cascade laser frequency combs in an external cavity
configuration. Experimental observations show dependence of comb repetition rate and …