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5 March 2021 Frequency combs and temporal solitons in a coherently driven ring quantum cascade laser
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Abstract
We propose a generalization of the well-known Lugiato-Lefever Equation to unify the description of combs- and structures- forming nonlinear optical systems. This approach rigorously connects for the first time passive systems such as Kerr micro-resonators and active systems such as Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCLs) which were so far treated separately. The model effectively describes a unidirectional ring QCL driven by a coherent signal where we show the existence of temporal solitons and Turing rolls, previously identified only in Kerr micro-resonators, considerably increasing the theoretical insight and the technological potential of chip-scale comb sources.
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Lorenzo L. Columbo, Franco Prati, Luigi A. Lugiato, Alessandra Gatti, Mariangela Gioannini, Carlo Silvestri, Benedikt Schwarz, Nikola Opacak, Marco Piccardo, Federico Capasso, and Massimo Brambilla "Frequency combs and temporal solitons in a coherently driven ring quantum cascade laser", Proc. SPIE 11705, Novel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers XX, 117050Y (5 March 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2578431
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KEYWORDS
Quantum cascade lasers

Solitons

Frequency combs

Microresonators

Optical resonators

Physics

Turbulence

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