Surface emission of intracavity frequency-doubled light from quantum cascade lasers

Author

Austerer, M. ; Pflügl, C. ; Golka, S. ; Schartner, S. ; Schrenk, W. ; Roch, T. ; Andrews, A.M. ; Strasser, G.

Author_Institution

Zentrum fur Mikro- und Nanostrukt., Tech. Univ. Wien, Vienna

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We report second-harmonic generation in GaAs-based quantum cascade lasers due to intersubband nonlinearities. Using a distributed feedback grating we obtain single-mode second-harmonic surface emission, where no fundamental light is emitted via the surface.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; diffraction gratings; distributed feedback lasers; gallium arsenide; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser modes; optical harmonic generation; quantum cascade lasers; surface emitting lasers; GaAs; distributed feedback grating; intersubband nonlinearities; intracavity frequency-doubled light; quantum cascade lasers; second-harmonic generation; single-mode surface emission; Distributed feedback devices; Frequency; Gratings; Laser feedback; Laser modes; Optical surface waves; Quantum cascade lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Surface emitting lasers; Waveguide lasers; (140.5960) Semiconductor lasers; (190.5970) Semiconductor nonlinear optics including MQW; (250.7270) Vertical emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628046

Filename

4628046