Title :
Suppression of spatial hole-burning and sub-picosecond pulses from two-section quantum cascade lasers
Author :
Talukder, Muhammad A. ; Menyuk, Curtis R.
Author_Institution :
Bangladesh Univ. of Eng. & Technol., Dhaka, Bangladesh
Abstract :
We design a two-section quantum cascade laser that suppresses the growth of continuous waves and spatial hole-burning and thus helps grow sub-ps pulses from random quantum noise over a broad range of pump parameters.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; optical hole burning; optical pumping; quantum cascade lasers; quantum noise; continuous wave growth suppression; pump parameters; random quantum noise; spatial hole burning; subpicosecond pulses; two-section quantum cascade lasers; Absorption; Cavity resonators; Gratings; Optical pulse generation; Quantum cascade lasers; Sociology; Statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2014.6995444