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LASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS
Volume 15, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.202100242
Keywords
frequency combs; injection locking; mid-infrared region; quantum cascade lasers
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- Swiss National Science Foundation [20B2-1_176584/1]
- European Union [820419]
- Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich
- Innosuisse [20B2-1_176584/1]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [20B2-1_176584] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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This work demonstrates the control of the emitted state from quantum cascade laser frequency combs through strong radio-frequency current modulation, achieving adjustments in spectral bandwidth and center frequency. Different spectral characteristics can be achieved at different modulation frequencies, allowing for the generation of multiple spectral regions on the same device.
In this work, control over the precise state emitted by quantum cascade laser frequency combs through strong radio-frequency current modulation close to their repetition frequency is demonstrated. In particular, broadening of the spectrum from about 20 cm(-1) to an average bandwidth of 60 cm(-1) can be achieved throughout most of the current dynamical range while preserving the coherence, as measured by shifted wave interference Fourier transform spectroscopy (SWIFTS). The required modulation frequency to achieve this broadening is red-shifted compared to the free-running beatnote frequency at increasing modulation powers starting from 25 dBm, whereas the range where it occurs narrows. Outside of this maximum-bandwidth range, the spectral bandwidth of the laser output is gradually reduced and the new center frequency is red- or blue-shifted, directly dependent on the detuning of the modulation frequency. By switching between two modulation frequencies detuned symmetrically with respect to the free-running beatnote, two multiplexed spectral regions with negligible overlap from the same device at rates of at least 20 kHz can be generated. In the time-domain, with both SWIFTS and interferometric autocorrelation (IAC) measurements a transition from quasi-continuous output to long-pulsed (tau p approximate to 55 ps) output is shown by ramping up the injection power to 35 dBm.
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