Extreme events in quantum cascade lasers

Olivier Spitz; Jiagui Wu; Andreas Herdt; Grégory Maisons; Mathieu Carras; Wolfgang Elsäßer; Chee Wei Wong; Frédéric Grillot

doi:10.1117/1.AP.2.6.066001

Extreme events in quantum cascade lasers

Olivier Spitz
, Jiagui Wu
, Andreas Herdt
, Grégory Maisons
, Mathieu Carras
, Wolfgang Elsäßer
, Chee Wei Wong
, Frédéric Grillot

Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Centre d'intégration NanoInnov
University of California, Los Angeles
Southwest University
Technische Universität Darmstadt
University of New Mexico

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Abstract

We demonstrate experimentally that mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) operating under external optical feedback exhibit extreme pulses. These events can be triggered by adding small amplitude periodic modulation, with the highest success rate for the case of a pulse-up excitation. These findings broaden the potential applications for QCLs, which have already been proven to be a semiconductor laser of interest for spectroscopic applications and countermeasure systems. The ability to trigger extreme events paves the way for optical neuron-like systems where information propagates as a result of high intensity bursts.

Original language	English
Article number	066001
Journal	Advanced Photonics
Volume	2
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/1.AP.2.6.066001
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2020

Keywords

Extreme pulses
Mid-infrared photonics
Nonlinear dynamics
Quantum cascade lasers

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