• DocumentCode
    3024540
  • Title

    Nonlinear Carrier Waves and Gain Oscillations in Infrared and Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers

  • Author

    Weber, C. ; Banit, F. ; Wacker, A. ; Knorr, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Tech. Univ. Berlin, Berlin
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-11 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    The pump pulse induced charge dynamics in quantum cascade laser structures is analyzed for typical examples of infrared and terahertz lasers in pump-probe spectra and electronic wave packet propagation using a density-matrix approach.
  • Keywords
    amplification; infrared sources; optical pumping; quantum cascade lasers; submillimetre wave lasers; charge dynamics; density-matrix approach; electronic wave packet propagation; gain oscillation; infrared laser; nonlinear carrier waves; pump pulse; pump-probe spectra; terahertz quantum cascade laser; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Optical scattering; Particle scattering; Pump lasers; Quantum cascade lasers; Quantum mechanics; Resonant tunneling devices; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-834-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453615
  • Filename
    4453615