OBSERVATION OF ROOM-TEMPERATURE INTRACAVITY DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION IN BUTT-JOINT DIODE LASERS Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • We obtain, for the first time to our knowledge, the room-temperature intracavity difference-frequency generation in. the mid-infrared range (around 10 um wavelength) in a butt-joint GaAs/InGaAs/InGaP quantum-well dual-wavelength laser diode which supports lasing at two closely spaced wavelengths in the nearinfrared range close to 1 m. We employ a special asymmetric waveguide design (which makes it possible the different-order transverse-mode lasing) and a low-doped substrate that minimize mid-infrared losses and phase mismatch for the difference-frequency nonlinear-mixing process. We explain qualitatively the physics of the intracavity mode mixing and describe in detail the design of the butt-joint diode laser. We show how to scale the effect into the far-infrared (terahertz) range, to improve the phase-matching conditions, and to enhance further the difference-frequency generation efficiency (the latter is about 1 WZ(kW)2 in our first experiment). 2008 IEEE.

name of conference

  • 2008 4th International Conference on Advanced Optoelectronics and Lasers

published proceedings

  • CAOL 2008: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED OPTOELECTRONICS AND LASERS

author list (cited authors)

  • Aleshkin, V. Y., Belyanin, A. A., Biryukov, A. A., Dubinov, A. A., Ershov, A. V., Gavrilenko, V. I., ... Zvonkov, B. N.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Aleshkin, Vladimir Ya||Belyanin, Alexey A||Biryukov, Anton A||Dubinov, Alexander A||Ershov, Alexey V||Gavrilenko, Vladimir I||Kocharovsky, Vitaly V||Kocharovsky, Vladimir V||Maremyanin, Kirill V||Morozov, Sergey V||Nekorkin, Sergey M||Zvonkov, Boris N

publication date

  • January 2008