Interband cascade technology for energy-efficient mid-infrared free-space communication

P Didier, H Knötig, O Spitz, L Cerutti… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Space-to-ground high-speed transmission is of utmost importance for the development of a
worldwide broadband network. Mid-infrared wavelengths offer numerous advantages for …

Bridging the terahertz gap: Photonics-assisted free-space communications from the submillimeter-wave to the mid-infrared

X Pang, O Ozolins, S Jia, L Zhang, R Schatz… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Since about one and half centuries ago, at the dawn of modern communications, the radio
and the optics have been two separate electromagnetic spectrum regions to carry data …

[图书][B] Ultrafast lasers

U Keller, R Paschotta - 2021 - Springer
This graduate-level textbook starts with Maxwell's equations. If the reader finds this
reasonable, this book should be helpful. Focusing on ultrafast solid-state laser oscillators …

High-capacity free-space optical link in the midinfrared thermal atmospheric windows using unipolar quantum devices

P Didier, H Dely, T Bonazzi, O Spitz… - Advanced …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Free-space optical communication is a very promising alternative to fiber communication
systems, in terms of ease of deployment and costs. Midinfrared light has several features of …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Broadband laser-based mid-infrared spectroscopy employing a quantum cascade detector for milk protein analysis

A Dabrowska, M David, S Freitag, AM Andrews… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mid-infrared chemical sensors based on quantum cascade technology offer a number of
properties surpassing conventional spectrometric techniques. In this work, we combine a …

Free-space transmission of picosecond-level, high-speed optical pulse streams in the 3 µm band

Y Su, W Tian, Y Yu, J Meng, Y Zheng, S Jia, Z Xie… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The utilization of mid-infrared (mid-IR) light spanning the 3-5? µm range presents notable
merits over the 1.5? µm band when operating in adverse atmospheric conditions …

Difference-frequency generation of random fiber lasers for broadly tunable mid-infrared continuous-wave random lasing generation

H Wu, W Wang, Y Li, C Li, J Yao… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Random fiber lasers (RFLs) can generate flexible near-infrared lasing wavelengths with
high power/high efficiency in simple configurations, which could be excellent candidates to …

Real-time, chirped-pulse heterodyne detection at room temperature with 100 GHz 3-dB-bandwidth mid-infrared quantum-well photodetectors

Q Lin, M Hakl, S Lepillet, H Li, JF Lampin, E Peytavit… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Thanks to intrinsically short electronic relaxation on the ps time scale, III-V semiconductor
unipolar devices are ideal candidates for ultrahigh-speed operation at mid-infrared …

An interband cascade laser based heterodyne detector with integrated optical amplifier and local oscillator

S Dal Cin, A Windischhofer, F Pilat, M Leskowschek… - …, 2024 - degruyter.com
Heterodyne detection based on interband cascade lasers (ICL) has been demonstrated in a
wide range of different applications. However, it is still often limited to bulky tabletop systems …