Physics and technology of Terahertz quantum cascade lasers

MS Vitiello, A Tredicucci - Advances in Physics: X, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Even though already in the seventies, right after the invention of the quantum cascade laser
(QCL) concept, it was argued that this device could be operated in the THz (far-infrared) …

Self‐Induced Mode‐Locking in Electrically Pumped Far‐Infrared Random Lasers

A Di Gaspare, V Pistore, E Riccardi… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mode locking, the self‐starting synchronous oscillation of electromagnetic modes in a laser
cavity, is the primary way to generate ultrashort light pulses. In random lasers, without a …

Self-mixing interferometry and near-field nanoscopy in quantum cascade random lasers at terahertz frequencies

KS Reichel, EAA Pogna, S Biasco, L Viti… - …, 2021 - degruyter.com
We demonstrate that electrically pumped random laser resonators, operating at terahertz
(THz) frequencies, and comprising a quantum cascade laser heterostructure, can operate as …

[HTML][HTML] Polarization analysis of random THz lasers

A Di Gaspare, MS Vitiello - APL Photonics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
By varying the geometrical filling factor from 8% to 12% and the hole radius from 3 to 5 µm,
we investigate the interference pattern of a set of surface emitting, electrically pumped …

Highly efficient one-dimensional quasi-crystalline THz semiconductor lasers

S Biasco, A Ciavatti, L Li, AG Davies… - … Waves (IRMMW-THz …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By lithographically patterning a sequence of air slits with different widths, following the
Octonacci sequence, on the top metal layer of a double-metal quantum cascade laser, we …