Active mid-infrared ring resonators

D Kazakov, TP Letsou, M Beiser, Y Zhi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
High-quality optical ring resonators can confine light in a small volume and store it for
millions of roundtrips. They have enabled the dramatic size reduction from laboratory scale …

Planarized THz quantum cascade lasers for broadband coherent photonics

U Senica, A Forrer, T Olariu, P Micheletti… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Recently, there has been a growing interest in integrated THz photonics for various
applications in communications, spectroscopy and sensing. We present a new integrated …

Terahertz optical solitons from dispersion-compensated antenna-coupled planarized ring quantum cascade lasers

P Micheletti, U Senica, A Forrer, S Cibella, G Torrioli… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) constitute an intriguing opportunity for the generation of on-
chip optical dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs). Originally demonstrated in passive …

Frequency‐Modulated Combs via Field‐Enhancing Tapered Waveguides

U Senica, A Dikopoltsev, A Forrer… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Frequency‐modulated (FM) combs feature flat intensity spectra with a linear frequency chirp,
useful for metrology and sensing applications. Generating FM combs in semiconductor …

[HTML][HTML] Frequency combs in optically injected terahertz ring quantum cascade lasers

MI Khan, Z Xiao, SJ Addamane, D Burghoff - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) have emerged as promising candidates for generating chip-
scale frequency combs in mid-infrared and terahertz wavelengths. In this work, we …

Low-threshold surface-emitting whispering-gallery mode microlasers

A Babichev, I Makhov… - IEEE Journal of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report on microlasers based on high-quality micropillars with whispering-gallery modes
lasing. The use of low-absorbing Al0. 2Ga0. 8As/Al0. 9Ga0. 1As distributed Bragg reflectors …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum cascade disk and ring lasers

S Kacmoli, CF Gmachl - Applied Physics Letters, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are a prominent semiconductor laser source operating in
the mid-infrared and terahertz regimes. As is typical with semiconductor lasers, QCLs …

The origin of frequency combs in free-running quantum cascade lasers

N Opačak - 2022 - repositum.tuwien.at
Optical frequency combs are perfectly periodic waveforms of light, whose optical spectrum
consists of a large number of equidistant modes. The mode spacing lies in the radio …

Nozaki-Bekki optical solitons

N Opačak, D Kazakov, LL Columbo, M Beiser… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent years witnessed rapid progress of chip-scale integrated optical frequency comb
sources. Among them, two classes are particularly significant--semiconductor Fabry-Per\'{o} t …

[HTML][HTML] Coupled terahertz quantum cascade wire lasers

MC Ertl, M Jaidl, B Limbacher, D Theiner… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We present mutual optical coupling in terahertz (THz) quantum cascade wire laser arrays
that are flip-chip bonded to a dielectric substrate. The mounting substrate is patterned for …