The interband cascade laser

JR Meyer, WW Bewley, CL Canedy, CS Kim, M Kim… - Photonics, 2020 - mdpi.com
We review the history, development, design principles, experimental operating
characteristics, and specialized architectures of interband cascade lasers for the mid-wave …

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 …

On-chip optical comb sources

A Hermans, K Van Gasse, B Kuyken - APL Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
On-chip integration of optical comb sources is crucial in enabling their widespread use.
Integrated photonic devices that can be mass-manufactured in semiconductor processing …

High-speed quantum cascade detector characterized with a mid-infrared femtosecond oscillator

J Hillbrand, L Matthieu Krüger, S Dal Cin, H Knötig… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Quantum cascade detectors (QCD) are photovoltaic mid-infrared detectors based on
intersubband transitions. Owing to the sub-picosecond carrier transport between subbands …

High-speed mid-wave infrared uni-traveling carrier photodetector based on InAs/InAsSb type-II superlattice

J Huang, Z Shen, Z Wang, Z Zhou… - IEEE Electron …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-speed photodetectors operating at mid-wave infrared are crucial for free-space optical
communication and frequency comb spectroscopy. In this letter, we report a high-speed mid …

Mode-locked short pulses from an 8 μm wavelength semiconductor laser

J Hillbrand, N Opačak, M Piccardo, H Schneider… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Quantum cascade lasers (QCL) have revolutionized the generation of mid-infrared light. Yet,
the ultrafast carrier transport in mid-infrared QCLs has so far constituted a seemingly …

Controlling quantum cascade laser optical frequency combs through microwave injection

B Schneider, F Kapsalidis, M Bertrand… - Laser & Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, control over the precise state emitted by quantum cascade laser frequency
combs through strong radio‐frequency current modulation close to their repetition frequency …

[HTML][HTML] Frequency-modulated diode laser frequency combs at 2 μm wavelength

LA Sterczewski, C Frez, S Forouhar, D Burghoff… - APL Photonics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Chip-scale electrically pumped optical frequency combs (OFCs) are expected to play a
fundamental role in applications ranging from telecommunications to optical sensing. To …

[HTML][HTML] Mid-infrared quantum cascade laser frequency combs with a microstrip-like line waveguide geometry

F Kapsalidis, B Schneider, M Singleton… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, a design for a mid-infrared quantum cascade laser frequency comb source that
enhances the high frequency response and the comb characteristics of the device is …

Sensitivity of SWIFT spectroscopy

Z Han, D Ren, D Burghoff - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
SWIFT spectroscopy (Shifted Wave Interference Fourier Transform Spectroscopy) is a
coherent beatnote technique that can be used to measure the temporal profiles of periodic …