Extreme events in quantum cascade lasers
Autor: | Chee Wei Wong, Andreas Herdt, Jiagui Wu, Wolfgang Elsäßer, Frédéric Grillot, Olivier Spitz, Mathieu Carras, Gregory Maisons |
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Přispěvatelé: | Télécom Paris, Département Communications & Electronique (COMELEC), Télécom ParisTech, Télécommunications Optiques (GTO), Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information (LTCI), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Télécom Paris-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris), University of California [Los Angeles] (UCLA), University of California, Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), MirSense, The University of New Mexico [Albuquerque] |
Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
[PHYS]Physics [physics]
Physics quantum cascade lasers business.industry extreme pulses General Medicine Laser 01 natural sciences law.invention Semiconductor laser theory 010309 optics nonlinear dynamics Superposition principle Semiconductor Modulation Cascade law 0103 physical sciences Optoelectronics Photonics 010306 general physics business mid-infrared photonics Quantum |
Zdroj: | Advanced Photonics Advanced Photonics, 2020, 2 (06), ⟨10.1117/1.AP.2.6.066001]⟩ |
ISSN: | 2577-5421 |
Popis: | International audience; We demonstrate experimentally that mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) operating under external optical feedback exhibit extreme pulses. These events can be triggered by adding small amplitude periodic modulation, with the highest success rate for the case of a pulse-up excitation. These findings broaden the potential applications for QCLs, which have already been proven to be a semiconductor laser of interest for spectroscopic applications and countermeasure systems. The ability to trigger extreme events paves the way for optical neuron-like systems where information propagates as a result of high intensity bursts. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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