Femtosecond resonant pulse propagation in quantum cascade lasers: Evidence of coherent effects

Author

Choi, Hyunyong ; Gkortsas, Vasileios-Marios ; Kartner, Franz X. ; Diehl, Laurent ; Wang, Christine Y. ; Capasso, Federico ; Bour, David ; Corzine, Scott ; Zhu, Jintian ; Hofler, Gloria ; Norris, Theodore B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Ultrafast upconversion is employed to investigate pulse propagation in quantum cascade lasers. The authors have observed advances of the pulse peak to early times, pulse re-shaping, and evidence of a coherent contribution to pulse propagation.

Keywords

laser tuning; light coherence; optical pulse generation; quantum cascade lasers; quantum optics; spectral line broadening; time resolved spectra; coherent effects; femtosecond resonant pulse propagation; quantum cascade lasers; quantum optics; spectral broadening; time-resolved spectra; ultrafast optical upconversion; Atom optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical propagation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Quantum cascade lasers; Resonance; Ultrafast optics; (140.5965) Semiconductor lasers, quantum cascade; (320.7100) Ultrafast measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4572001