Theoretical and experimental study of optical gain and linewidth enhancement factor of type-I quantum-cascade lasers

J Kim, M Lerttamrab, SL Chuang… - IEEE journal of …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A theoretical and experimental study of the optical gain and the linewidth enhancement
factor (LEF) of a type-I quantum-cascade (QC) laser is reported. QC lasers have a …

Linewidth enhancement factor of a type-II interband-cascade laser

M Lerttamrab, SL Chuang, RQ Yang… - Journal of applied …, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
Experimental results using the amplified spontaneous emission spectroscopy of a type-II
interband-cascade laser are presented. Using the Hakki-Paoli method, the optical gain …

Linewidth enhancement factor of a type-I quantum-cascade laser

M Lerttamrab, SL Chuang, C Gmachl… - Journal of applied …, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
Experimental results using the amplified spontaneous emission spectroscopy of a type-I
quantum-cascade laser are presented. Using the Hakki–Paoli method, the optical gain …

Supersymmetric optimization of second-harmonic generation in mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers

J Bai, DS Citrin - Optics Express, 2006 - opg.optica.org
We describe a procedure to optimize mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers with respect to
the resonant second-order optical susceptibility, based on supersymmetric quantum …

Intracavity nonlinearities in quantum-cascade lasers

J Bai, DS Citrin - Journal of Applied Physics, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
We discuss various intracavity optical nonlinearities up to the third order in quantum-
cascade lasers. The discussions are based on two kinds of nonlinearities, each toward …

[PDF][PDF] Gain and waveguide engineering in mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers

T Gresch - 2009 - research-collection.ethz.ch
Quantum cascade lasers are unipolar semiconductor lasers that, due to the generality of the
principles they are based on and the flexibility of the underlying technology, allow to …

Tuning nonlinear susceptibility in strained AlGaAs/InGaAs quantum cascade lasers

D Roberts, G Triplett - Solid-state electronics, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper explores enhancement of nonlinear susceptibility in strained quantum cascade
lasers (QCLs) that lead to unique intracavity characteristics that include frequency mixing …

Optical and transport characteristics of quantum-cascade lasers with optimized second-harmonic generation

J Bai, DS Citrin - IEEE journal of quantum electronics, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present simulations of midinfrared quantum-cascade lasers (QCLs) with optimized
second-harmonic generation (SHG). The optimized design was obtained utilizing …

A generalized modeling strategy of quantum-cascade structures with resonance-enhanced harmonic oscillations

J Bai - Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and …, 2009 - Elsevier
In this work, the modeling strategy of quantum-cascade lasers is generalized to including the
harmonic-resonance-enhanced nonlinear oscillations up to the third order. In addition to the …

Enhanced nonlinear susceptibility in strained quantum cascade lasers

D Roberts, G Triplett - 2007 International Semiconductor Device …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since the invention of the quantum cascade (QC) laser, which was demonstrated by Faist et
al. in 1994, there has been much progress and advancement to include a wide range of …