Abstract
As the effect of group-velocity dispersion (GVD) on the stability of midinfrared quantum-cascade lasers (QCLs) has not been explored so far, both amplitude and phase instabilities of QCLs were analyzed in the presence of a background saturable absorber in the lasing medium. The investigation was carried out through the linearization of the Maxwell-Bloch formalism for the lasing medium by including second-order dispersion of group velocity and intensity-dependent loss accounting for the saturable absorber. The effect of the GVD on laser instability was found to be strongly related to the strength of the saturable absorber and pumping. The effect of the GVD is more significant at lower pumping levels and with weaker saturable absorbers.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 13069 |
| Journal | Journal of Applied Remote Sensing |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - 2013 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) by Grant No. ECCS-1232273. The authors would like to thank Dr. Qijie Wang in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, for helpful discussions.
Keywords
- Group-velocity dispersion
- Midinfrared quantum-cascade lasers
- Stability