Linewidth narrowing in self-injection-locked on-chip lasers

E Alkhazraji, WW Chow, F Grillot, JE Bowers… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Stable laser emission with narrow linewidth is of critical importance in many applications,
including coherent communications, LIDAR, and remote sensing. In this work, the physics …

Strong optical feedback stabilized quantum cascade laser

B Zhao, X Wang, C Wang - ACS Photonics, 2020 - ACS Publications
A narrow-line-width quantum cascade laser (QCL) is highly demanded for high-resolution
spectroscopy of narrow molecule absorption lines. This work shows a low-noise QCL …

Rate equation modeling of interband cascade lasers on modulation and noise dynamics

Y Deng, C Wang - IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a rate equation model for interband cascade lasers, which is used for
investigating modulation dynamics and optical noise properties. Through standard small …

Relative intensity noise of a mid-infrared quantum cascade laser: insensitivity to optical feedback

BB Zhao, XG Wang, J Zhang, C Wang - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
This article experimentally demonstrates that the relative intensity noise (RIN) of a mid-
infrared quantum cascade laser is insensitive to the optical feedback for feedback ratios up …

Uniform spike trains in optically injected quantum cascade oscillators

Y Peng, S Liu, V Kovanis, C Wang - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
It has been experimentally and theoretically analyzed that noise-induced excitability in
quantum well and quantum dot semiconductor laser systems usually produces sharp spike …

Optical noise characteristics of injection-locked epitaxial quantum dot lasers on silicon

Q Chu, S Zhao, J Wang, Y Sun, Y Yao, X Xu, F Grillot… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
This work theoretically investigates the relative intensity noise (RIN) and spectral linewidth
characteristics of epitaxial quantum dot (QD) lasers on silicon subject to optical injection …

Relative phase locking of a terahertz laser system configured with a frequency comb and a single-mode laser

W Guan, Z Li, S Wu, H Liu, X Ma… - Advanced …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Stable operation is one of the most important requirements for a laser source for high-
precision applications. Many efforts have been made to improve the stability of lasers by …

Spectral linewidth reduction of quantum cascade lasers by strong optical feedback

XG Wang, BB Zhao, F Grillot, C Wang - Journal of Applied Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we propose to employ strong optical feedback to narrow the spectral linewidth
of quantum cascade lasers without using any phase control. Rate equation analysis …

Laser diodes with modulated optical injection: towards a simple signal processing unit?

R Desmet, M Virte - Journal of Physics: Photonics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The idea of using the dynamical behaviour of a semiconductor laser to perform a certain
processing operation of an input signal has been around for quite a long time. While the …

Tunable frequency comb generation using quantum cascade lasers subject to optical injection

BB Zhao, V Kovanis, C Wang - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We dissect the enabling capabilities of the tunable period-one (P1) limit cycles of optically
injected quantum cascade laser (QCL) oscillators for the generation of optical frequency …