Title :
Spatial hole burning in actively mode-locked quantum cascade lasers
Author :
Gkortsas, Vasileios-Marios ; Gordon, A. ; Jirauschek, C. ; Wang, C. ; Kuznetsova, L. ; Diehl, L. ; Belkin, M.A. ; Belyanin, A. ; Capasso, F. ; Kärtner, Franz X.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
A theoretical study of active mode-locking in quantum cascade lasers including spatial hole-burning is presented. It is found that spatial hole-burning reduces the pulse duration at the expense of slight pulse instability and strongly structured pulse shapes.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; optical hole burning; optical pulse generation; quantum cascade lasers; active mode-locking; optical pulse generation; pulse instability; quantum cascade laser; spatial hole burning; Frequency conversion; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulse shaping; Physics; Pulse shaping methods; Quantum cascade lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Shape; (140.4050) Mode-locked lasers; (140.5965) Semiconductor lasers, quantum cascade;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8
