Efficient power extraction in surface-emitting semiconductor lasers using graded photonic heterostructures

G Xu, R Colombelli, SP Khanna, A Belarouci… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Symmetric and antisymmetric band-edge modes exist in distributed feedback surface-
emitting semiconductor lasers, with the dominant difference being the radiation loss …

[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 …

High-speed modulation of a terahertz quantum cascade laser by coherent acoustic phonon pulses

A Dunn, C Poyser, P Dean, A Demić… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The fast modulation of lasers is a fundamental requirement for applications in optical
communications, high-resolution spectroscopy and metrology. In the terahertz-frequency …

Limiting factors to the temperature performance of THz quantum cascade lasers based on the resonant-phonon depopulation scheme

Y Chassagneux, QJ Wang, SP Khanna… - IEEE Transactions …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We analyze the temperature performance of five terahertz (THz)-frequency quantum
cascade lasers based on a three-quantum-well resonant-phonon depopulation design as a …

High frequency modulation of mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers embedded into microstrip line

A Calvar, MI Amanti, M Renaudat St-Jean… - Applied Physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we have studied the frequency response to a direct current modulation of a mid-
infrared quantum cascade laser that has been monolithically integrated within a microwave …

Photonic engineering of surface‐emitting terahertz quantum cascade lasers

L Mahler, A Tredicucci - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Various resonators for surface emission are reviewed that have recently been developed to
improve radiative‐and collection‐efficiencies of terahertz quantum cascade lasers (THz …

[HTML][HTML] Thin THz QCL active regions for improved continuous-wave operating temperature

CA Curwen, SJ Addamane, JL Reno, M Shahili… - AIP Advances, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We compare the performance of 10 and 5 μm thick metal–metal waveguide terahertz
quantum-cascade laser ridges operating around 2.7 THz and based on a 4-well phonon …

Thin active region HgCdTe-based quantum cascade laser with quasi-relativistic dispersion law

AA Dubinov, DV Ushakov, AA Afonenko… - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
HgCdTe is promising as a material to solve a problem of the development of semiconductor
sources with an operational frequency range of 6–10 THz due to the small optical phonon …

Optical critical coupling into highly confining metal-insulator-metal resonators

JM Manceau, S Zanotto, I Sagnes, G Beaudoin… - Applied Physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate controlled optical critical coupling into highly confining metal-insulator-
metal grating-based resonators. We achieve the coupling—and hence the absorption—of …

Radiation model for terahertz transmission-line metamaterial quantum-cascade lasers

PWC Hon, AA Tavallaee, QS Chen… - … on terahertz science …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the use of the cavity antenna model in predicting the radiative loss, far-field
polarization and far-field beam patterns of terahertz quantum-cascade (QC) lasers. Metal …