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Passive mode-locking of 3.25μm GaSb-based type-I quantum-well cascade diode lasers

  • Tao Feng
  • , Leon Shterengas
  • , Gela Kipshidze
  • , Takashi Hosoda
  • , Meng Wang
  • , Gregory Belenky
  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

Passively mode-locked type-I quantum well cascade diode lasers emitting in the methane absorption band near 3.25 μm were designed, fabricated and characterized. The deep etched ∼5.5-μm-wide single spatial mode ridge waveguide design utilizing split-contact architecture was implemented. The devices with absorber to gain section length ratios of 11% and 5.5% were studied. Lasers with the longer absorber section (∼300 μm) generated smooth bell-shape-like emission spectrum with about 30 lasing modes at full-width-at-half-maximum level. Devices with reverse biased absorber section demonstrated stable radio frequency beat with nearly perfect Lorentzian shape over four orders of magnitude of intensity. The estimated pulse-to-pulse timing jitter was about 110 fs/cycle. Laser generated average power of more than 1 mW in mode-locked regime.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNovel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers XVII
EditorsPeter M. Smowton, Alexey A. Belyanin
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510615915
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
EventNovel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers XVII 2018 - San Francisco, United States
Duration: Jan 29 2018Feb 1 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume10553
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceNovel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers XVII 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period01/29/1802/1/18

Keywords

  • antimonide
  • cascade pumping
  • diode lasers
  • mid-infrared
  • mode-locked laser
  • type-I quantum well

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