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  • 2017 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and European Quantum Electronics Conference
  • (Optica Publishing Group, 2017),
  • paper CF_12_1

On Passive Mode Locking in THz Quantum Cascade Lasers

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Abstract

Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are unipolar semiconductor devices emitting in the mid- and far-infrared spectral ranges. Due to their relatively narrow linewidths and short gain recovery times, these lasers have been deemed difficult, if not impossible, to passively mode lock (PML) [1,2]. However, the successful mode locking of QCLs is of utmost importance as it could allow generation of ultrashort pulses and also formation of broadband frequency combs. As a consequence, the research community invested substantial effort and funds in devising methods for active mode locking of QCLs with some limited success achieved [1,2]. In this submission, we revise the prospect of passively mode locking a THz QCL via a fast saturable absorber (FSA). Our results, based on the numerical solution of the Maxwell-Bloch equations, show that it could be possible to implement a “text-book” FSA-PML mechanism, robust over large variations of the experimental parameters.

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