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    • Received: Aug. 16, 2019

    Accepted: Sep. 25, 2020

    Posted: Oct. 23, 2020

    Published Online: Oct. 23, 2020

    The Author Email: Spitz Olivier (olivier.spitz@telecom-paris.fr), Wu Jiagui (mgh@swu.edu.cn), Herdt Andreas (andreas.herdt@physik.tu-darmstadt.de), Maisons Grégory (gregory.maisons@mirsense.com), Carras Mathieu (mathieu.carras@mirsense.com), Elsäßer Wolfgang (elsaesser@physik.tu-darmstadt.de), Wong Chee-Wei (cheewei.wong@ucla.edu), Grillot Frédéric (frederic.grillot@telecom-paris.fr)

    DOI: 10.1117/1.AP.2.6.066001

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    Olivier Spitz, Jiagui Wu, Andreas Herdt, Grégory Maisons, Mathieu Carras, Wolfgang Elsäßer, Chee-Wei Wong, Frédéric Grillot. Extreme events in quantum cascade lasers[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2020, 2(6): 066001

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Advanced Photonics, Vol. 2, Issue 6, 066001 (2020)

Extreme events in quantum cascade lasers

Olivier Spitz1,2,3,*, Jiagui Wu3,4, Andreas Herdt5, Grégory Maisons2, Mathieu Carras2, Wolfgang Elsäßer5, Chee-Wei Wong3, and Frédéric Grillot1,3,6

Author Affiliations

  • 1LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France
  • 2mirSense, Centre d’Intégration NanoInnov, Palaiseau, France
  • 3University of California Los Angeles, Fang Lu Mesoscopic Optics and Quantum Electronics Laboratory, Los Angeles, California, United States
  • 4Southwest University, College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Chongqing, China
  • 5Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
  • 6University of New Mexico, Center for High Technology Materials, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

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.

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