Dissipative solitons and frequency combs in a ring quantum cascade laser

Lorenzo Luigi L. Columbo; Marco Piccardo; Franco Prati; Luigi Lugiato; Massimo Brambilla; Alessandra Gatti; Carlo Silvestri; Mariangela Gioannini; Nikola Opacak; Benedikt Schwarz; Federico Capasso

doi:10.1117/12.2631339

30 May 2022 Dissipative solitons and frequency combs in a ring quantum cascade laser

Lorenzo Luigi L. Columbo, Marco Piccardo, Franco Prati, Luigi Lugiato, Massimo Brambilla, Alessandra Gatti, Carlo Silvestri, Mariangela Gioannini, Nikola Opacak, Benedikt Schwarz, Federico Capasso

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Proceedings Volume PC12143, Nonlinear Optics and its Applications 2022; PC121430I (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2631339
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2022, Strasbourg, France

Abstract

We generalized the well-known Lugiato-Lefever Equation to unify the description of combs and localized structures formation in nonlinear optical systems such as Kerr micro-resonators (passive systems) and Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCL) (active systems). In particular this model was applied to the study of pattern formation in a unidirectional ring QCL driven by a coherent injected field. We showed the existence of Dissipative Solitons (DS) and Turing rolls associated to standard and harmonic Optical Frequency Combs (OFC) in the system. We also provided a proof of principle demonstration of the possibility to deterministically control the spectral properties of these OFC by switching-on one or more DS with suitable addressing pulses. These results considerably increase the theoretical insight in chip-scale combs sources in the mid-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum for timely applications in the field of e.g. high resolution and/or time resolved molecular spectroscopy, long range and high bit rate wireless communications.

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Lorenzo Luigi L. Columbo, Marco Piccardo, Franco Prati, Luigi Lugiato, Massimo Brambilla, Alessandra Gatti, Carlo Silvestri, Mariangela Gioannini, Nikola Opacak, Benedikt Schwarz, and Federico Capasso "Dissipative solitons and frequency combs in a ring quantum cascade laser", Proc. SPIE PC12143, Nonlinear Optics and its Applications 2022, PC121430I (30 May 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2631339

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