DocumentCode
421908
Title
Grating-coupled surface emitting quantum cascade semiconductor optical pre-amplifier
Author
Zhang, H.L. ; Luo, G.P. ; Seetharaman, A. ; Johnson, P. ; Le, H.Q.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Houston Univ., TX, USA
Volume
1
fYear
2004
fDate
16-21 May 2004
Abstract
A grating-coupled surface-emitting mid-IR optical pre-amplifier was fabricated from a quantum cascade laser wafer and demonstrated >15-dB small signal gain with ASE power <-44 dBm. The Bragg grating served as output-coupler, ASE-filter, and wavelength division multiplexer.
Keywords
Bragg gratings; infrared sources; integrated optics; laser cavity resonators; optical couplers; optical fabrication; optical filters; optical parametric amplifiers; quantum cascade lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; superradiance; surface emitting lasers; waveguide lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; ASE-filter; Bragg grating; grating-coupled preamplifier; integrated optics; midIR preamplifier; optical fabrication; optical parametric amplifier; output-coupler; quantum cascade laser wafer; quantum cascade preamplifier; ridge waveguide OPA; semiconductor optical preamplifier; surface emitting preamplifier; wavelength division multiplexer;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN
1-55752-777-6
Type
conf
Filename
1361360
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