[HTML][HTML] Frequency combs in quantum cascade lasers: An overview of modeling and experiments

C Silvestri, X Qi, T Taimre, K Bertling, AD Rakić - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Over the past decade, the demonstration of frequency combs has been reported in a wide
range of quantum cascade lasers. These combs have huge potential in applications …

Laser frequency combs with fast gain recovery: physics and applications

M Piccardo, F Capasso - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The dynamics of semiconductor lasers with fast gain is generally considered to suppress
amplitude modulation, resulting in a frequency‐modulated output. Since their first …

Frequency combs induced by phase turbulence

M Piccardo, B Schwarz, D Kazakov, M Beiser… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Wave instability—the process that gives rise to turbulence in hydrodynamics—represents
the mechanism by which a small disturbance in a wave grows in amplitude owing to …

Terahertz optical solitons from dispersion-compensated antenna-coupled planarized ring quantum cascade lasers

P Micheletti, U Senica, A Forrer, S Cibella, G Torrioli… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) constitute an intriguing opportunity for the generation of on-
chip optical dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs). Originally demonstrated in passive …

Photon-driven broadband emission and frequency comb RF injection locking in THz quantum cascade lasers

A Forrer, M Franckié, D Stark, T Olariu, M Beck… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We present homogeneous quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) emitting around 3 THz which
display bandwidths up to 950 GHz with a single stable beatnote. Devices are spontaneously …

[HTML][HTML] Self-starting harmonic comb emission in THz quantum cascade lasers

A Forrer, Y Wang, M Beck, A Belyanin, J Faist… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Harmonic comb states have proven to be ubiquitous in mid-IR quantum cascade lasers. We
report here on robust, pure, self-starting harmonic mode locking in Copper-based double …

Sculpting harmonic comb states in terahertz quantum cascade lasers by controlled engineering

E Riccardi, MA Justo Guerrero, V Pistore, L Seitner… - Optica, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Optical frequency combs (OFCs), which establish a rigid phase-coherent link between the
microwave and optical domains of the electromagnetic spectrum, are emerging as key high …

Harmonic frequency combs in quantum cascade lasers: time-domain and frequency-domain theory

Y Wang, A Belyanin - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
Harmonic frequency combs, in which the lasing modes are separated by a period of tens of
free spectral ranges from each other, have been recently discovered in quantum cascade …

Frequency-modulated combs obey a variational principle

M Piccardo, P Chevalier, B Schwarz, D Kazakov… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
Laser dynamics encompasses universal phenomena that can be encountered in many
areas of physics, such as bifurcation and chaos, mode competition, resonant nonlinearities …