Quantum Cascade Lasers as Broadband Sources via Strong RF Modulation

2023/11/22 by Cargioli, Alessio, Piciocchi, Diego, Bertrand, Mathieu +5 · 1 citation
#Applied Physics (physics.app-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Optics (physics.optics)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2311.13496

Abstract

In this work, we demonstrate that in a regime of strong modulation, by generating pulses of the length of the order of a few cavity lifetimes (hundreds of ps), a broadband quantum cascade laser can be driven to lase on a bandwidth (250cm-1) limited by the gain. In addition, the amplitude noise of the radiation was shown to be limited by the detector. A laser linewidth study has been performed under different operating conditions finding values spanning from 20MHz to 800MHz, indicating a trade-off between emission bandwidth, amplitude stability and coherence.

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