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 …

Nozaki–Bekki solitons in semiconductor lasers

N Opačak, D Kazakov, LL Columbo, M Beiser… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Optical frequency-comb sources, which emit perfectly periodic and coherent waveforms of
light, have recently rapidly progressed towards chip-scale integrated solutions. Among them …

Nonlinear photonics on integrated platforms

W Geng, Y Fang, Y Wang, C Bao, W Liu, Z Pan… - Nanophotonics, 2024 - degruyter.com
Nonlinear photonics has unveiled new avenues for applications in metrology, spectroscopy,
and optical communications. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in 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 …

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 …

Backscattering-induced dissipative solitons in ring quantum cascade lasers

L Seitner, J Popp, I Heckelmann, RE Vass, B Meng… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Ring quantum cascade lasers have recently gained considerable attention, showing
ultrastable frequency comb and soliton operation, thus opening a way to integrated …

Harmonic active mode locking in terahertz quantum cascade lasers

C Silvestri, X Qi, T Taimre, AD Rakić - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We present a numerical study of the active harmonic mode locking (HML) of quantum
cascade lasers (QCLs) in the terahertz (THz) spectral range. This is a recently …

[HTML][HTML] Frequency combs in optically injected terahertz ring quantum cascade lasers

MI Khan, Z **ao, SJ Addamane, D Burghoff - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) have emerged as promising candidates for generating chip-
scale frequency combs in mid-infrared and terahertz wavelengths. In this work, we …

Analytical theory of frequency-modulated combs: generalized mean-field theory, complex cavities, and harmonic states

L Humbard, D Burghoff - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Frequency-modulated (FM) combs with a linearly-chirped frequency and nearly constant
intensity occur naturally in certain laser systems; they can be most succinctly described by a …