Nature Communications (Aug 2018)
Ultrafast switch-on dynamics of frequency-tuneable semiconductor lasers
- Iman Kundu,
- Feihu Wang,
- Xiaoqiong Qi,
- Hanond Nong,
- Paul Dean,
- Joshua R. Freeman,
- Alexander Valavanis,
- Gary Agnew,
- Andrew T. Grier,
- Thomas Taimre,
- Lianhe Li,
- Dragan Indjin,
- Juliette Mangeney,
- Jérôme Tignon,
- Sukhdeep S. Dhillon,
- Aleksandar D. Rakić,
- John E. Cunningham,
- Edmund H. Linfield,
- A. Giles Davies
Affiliations
- Iman Kundu
- School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds
- Feihu Wang
- Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Département de physique de l’ENS, École normale supérieure, PSL Research University, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS
- Xiaoqiong Qi
- School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland
- Hanond Nong
- Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Département de physique de l’ENS, École normale supérieure, PSL Research University, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS
- Paul Dean
- School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds
- Joshua R. Freeman
- School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds
- Alexander Valavanis
- School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds
- Gary Agnew
- School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland
- Andrew T. Grier
- School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds
- Thomas Taimre
- School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland
- Lianhe Li
- School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds
- Dragan Indjin
- School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds
- Juliette Mangeney
- Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Département de physique de l’ENS, École normale supérieure, PSL Research University, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS
- Jérôme Tignon
- Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Département de physique de l’ENS, École normale supérieure, PSL Research University, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS
- Sukhdeep S. Dhillon
- Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Département de physique de l’ENS, École normale supérieure, PSL Research University, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS
- Aleksandar D. Rakić
- School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland
- John E. Cunningham
- School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds
- Edmund H. Linfield
- School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds
- A. Giles Davies
- School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05601-x
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
Single-mode, tuneable monolithic semiconductor lasers are important light sources for integrated photonics. Here, Kundu et al. observe the switch-on dynamics and mode competition of a terahertz quantum cascade laser and explain the behaviour with a carrier and photon transport model.
