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 …

Active mid-infrared ring resonators

D Kazakov, TP Letsou, M Beiser, Y Zhi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
High-quality optical ring resonators can confine light in a small volume and store it for
millions of roundtrips. They have enabled the dramatic size reduction from laboratory scale …

Planarized THz quantum cascade lasers for broadband coherent photonics

U Senica, A Forrer, T Olariu, P Micheletti… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Recently, there has been a growing interest in integrated THz photonics for various
applications in communications, spectroscopy and sensing. We present a new integrated …

On-chip optical comb sources

A Hermans, K Van Gasse, B Kuyken - APL Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
On-chip integration of optical comb sources is crucial in enabling their widespread use.
Integrated photonic devices that can be mass-manufactured in semiconductor processing …

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 …

Self‐induced phase locking of terahertz frequency combs in a phase‐sensitive hyperspectral near‐field nanoscope

V Pistore, EAA Pogna, L Viti, L Li, AG Davies… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Chip‐scale, electrically‐pumped terahertz (THz) frequency‐combs (FCs) rely on nonlinear
four‐wave‐mixing processes, and have a nontrivial phase relationship between the evenly …

Comb operation in terahertz quantum cascade ring lasers

M Jaidl, N Opačak, MA Kainz, S Schönhuber… - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Ring resonators are an interesting alternative cavity solution to the commonly used ridge-
type waveguide for terahertz (THz) quantum cascade lasers. They either support a standing …

Multimode dynamics of terahertz quantum cascade lasers: Spontaneous and actively induced generation of dense and harmonic coherent regimes

C Silvestri, X Qi, T Taimre, AD Rakić - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We present a study concerning the dynamics of dense and harmonic coherent regimes in
quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) in a Fabry–Perot configuration emitting in the terahertz …

Frequency‐Modulated Combs via Field‐Enhancing Tapered Waveguides

U Senica, A Dikopoltsev, A Forrer… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Frequency‐modulated (FM) combs feature flat intensity spectra with a linear frequency chirp,
useful for metrology and sensing applications. Generating FM combs in semiconductor …