DocumentCode
2354585
Title
Power scaling behavior of the relative intensity noise of quantum cascade lasers
Author
Gensty, Tobias ; Elsässer, Wolfgang
Author_Institution
Inst. of Appl. Phys., Darmstadt Univ. of Technol., Germany
fYear
2004
fDate
25-25 Sept. 2004
Firstpage
28
Lastpage
29
Abstract
We investigate experimentally and theoretically the relative intensity noise (RIN) of quantum cascade lasers (QCL). We find that the scaling behavior of RIN on the optical power depends on the number of cascaded gain stages.
Keywords
laser beams; laser noise; quantum cascade lasers; semiconductor device models; semiconductor lasers; GaInAs-AlInAs; cascaded gain stages; intersubband diode laser; optical power; power scaling; quantum cascade lasers; relative intensity noise; semiclassical noise model; semiconductor diode laser; Frequency; Laser noise; Optical feedback; Optical noise; Optical pumping; Quantum cascade lasers; Quantum well lasers; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor lasers; Stimulated emission;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Semiconductor Laser Conference, 2004. Conference Digest. 2004 IEEE 19th International
Conference_Location
Matsue-shi
Print_ISBN
0-7803-8627-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ISLC.2004.1382737
Filename
1382737
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