• DocumentCode
    2118127
  • Title

    Ultra-short pulses from quantum cascade structures with distributed gain and absorption

  • Author

    Talukder, Muhammad Anisuzzaman ; Menyuk, Curtis R.

  • Author_Institution
    Bangladesh Univ. of Eng. & Technol., Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    8-12 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    464
  • Lastpage
    465
  • Abstract
    We theoretically demonstrate that mid-infrared ultra-short pulses can be created from quantum cascade structures having two-section cavities, where one of the sections is a gain medium and the other is a resonant absorbing medium.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; quantum cascade lasers; gain medium; mid-infrared ultra-short pulses; quantum cascade structures; resonant absorbing medium; Absorption; Cavity resonators; Laser modes; Laser theory; Optical pulse generation; Quantum cascade lasers; Quantum mechanics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Bellevue, WA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1506-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656638
  • Filename
    6656638