• DocumentCode
    2231759
  • Title

    Modal instability and beam steering in quantum cascade lasers

  • Author

    Yao, Yu ; Huang, Yuting ; Wang, Xiaojun ; Gmachl, Claire F.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Time-resolved far-field measurements of Quantum Cascade lasers show beam steering on the few nano-second scale. Spatially resolved spectra show that the beam steering is accompanied with frequency locking between transverse modes.
  • Keywords
    beam steering; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; laser mode locking; laser modes; laser variables measurement; quantum cascade lasers; beam steering; frequency locking; modal instability; quantum cascade lasers; spatially resolved spectra; time-resolved far-field measurements; transverse modes; Beam steering; Laser beams; Laser mode locking; Logic gates; Measurement by laser beam; Quantum cascade lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5950297