Nonlinear light generation in quantum cascade and semiconductor diode lasers

Author

Yanin, Alexey Bel ; Gmach, Claire ; Sivco, Deborah L. ; Capasso, Federico

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

27-28 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

344

Abstract

This work discusses the basic physics and design of semiconductor injection lasers with integrated nonlinear optical elements that support resonant intracavity of laser modes. One or several laser modes serve as an intracavity optical pump for a variety of nonlinear optical processes including second-harmonic, sum-frequency, and difference-frequency generation, Raman Stokes or anti-Stokes scattering, and parametric frequency down-conversion.

Keywords

coherent antiStokes Raman scattering; integrated optics; laser cavity resonators; laser modes; optical harmonic generation; optical pumping; quantum cascade lasers; semiconductor lasers; Raman Stokes; anti-Stokes scattering; difference-frequency generation; integrated nonlinear optical elements; intracavity optical pump; laser modes; nonlinear light generation; nonlinear optical processes; parametric frequency down-conversion; quantum cascade lasers; resonant intracavity; second-harmonic generation; semiconductor diode lasers; semiconductor injection lasers; sum-frequency generation; Laser modes; Laser theory; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Optical scattering; Pump lasers; Quantum cascade lasers; Resonance light scattering; Semiconductor diodes; Semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7888-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2003.1251786

Filename

1251786