• 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