Coherent instabilities in a semiconductor laser with fast gain recovery

CY Wang, L Diehl, A Gordon, C Jirauschek… - Physical Review A …, 2007 - APS
We report the observation of a coherent multimode instability in quantum cascade lasers
(QCLs), which is driven by the same fundamental mechanism of Rabi oscillations as the …

Coherent master equation for laser modelocking

AM Perego, B Garbin, F Gustave, S Barland… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Modelocked lasers constitute the fundamental source of optically-coherent ultrashort-pulsed
radiation, with huge impact in science and technology. Their modeling largely rests on the …

Low-threshold RNGH instabilities in quantum cascade lasers

NN Vuković, J Radovanović… - IEEE Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We show that low-threshold Risken-Nummedal-Graham-Haken (RNGH) instabilities in
quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) occur due to a combined effect of the carrier coherence and …

Dynamics of the transition from polarization disorder to antiphase polarization domains in vector fiber lasers

C Lecaplain, P Grelu, S Wabnitz - Physical Review A, 2014 - APS
We demonstrate that nonlinear polarization coupling in a fiber ring laser without polarization-
selective elements, subject to the effects of average anomalous dispersion, Kerr effect, and …

Vector-resonance-multimode instability

SV Sergeyev, H Kbashi, N Tarasov, Y Loiko… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
The modulation and multimode instabilities are the main mechanisms which drive
spontaneous spatial and temporal pattern formation in a vast number of nonlinear systems …

Effects of gain and bandwidth on the multimode behavior of optoelectronic microwave oscillators

YK Chembo, L Larger, R Bendoula, P Colet - Optics express, 2008 - opg.optica.org
We show that when subjected to high gain, delay-line optoelectronic oscillators can display
a strongly multimode behavior depending on the feedback bandwidth. We found that this …

Quantum input-output theory for optical cavities with arbitrary coupling strength: application to two-photon wave-packet sha**

MG Raymer, CJ McKinstrie - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and …, 2013 - APS
We develop quantum-optical input-output theory for resonators with arbitrary coupling
strength, and for input fields whose spectrum can be wider than the cavity free-spectral …

Nonlinear optical interactions of laser modes in quantum cascade lasers

AK Wójcik, N Yu, F Capasso… - Journal of Modern Optics, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
We overview the results of recent experimental and theoretical studies of nonlinear
dynamics of mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) associated with nonlinear …

General linearized theory of quantum fluctuations around arbitrary limit cycles

C Navarrete-Benlloch, T Weiss, S Walter… - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
The theory of Gaussian quantum fluctuations around classical steady states in nonlinear
quantum-optical systems (also known as standard linearization) is a cornerstone for the …

Single-frequency ytterbium-doped fiber laser with 26 nm tuning range

M Engelbrecht, A Ruehl, D Wandt, D Kracht - Optics Express, 2007 - opg.optica.org
A core-pumped ytterbium-doped fiber laser is presented, tunable over 26 nm from 1017 nm
to 1043 nm. A diffraction grating pair in Littman-Littrow configuration in the unidirectional ring …