1. Injection-induced, tunable, all-optical gating in a two-state quantum dot laser
- Author
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I. Dubinkin, Bryan Kelleher, Thomas Erneux, David Goulding, Evgeny A. Viktorov, Guillaume Huyet, Nikita Fedorov, Boguslaw Tykalewicz, and Stephen P. Hegarty
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Physics ,Bistability ,business.industry ,Dropout (communications) ,Rate equation ,Gating ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Laser ,01 natural sciences ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,law.invention ,010309 optics ,Quantum dot laser ,law ,Excited state ,0103 physical sciences ,Optoelectronics ,010306 general physics ,Ground state ,business ,Sciences exactes et naturelles - Abstract
We demonstrate a tunable all-optical gating phenomenon in a single-section quantum dot laser. The free-running operation of the device is emission from the excited state. Optical injection into the ground state of the material can induce a switch to emission from the ground state with complete suppression of the excited state. If the master laser is detuned from the ground-state emitting frequency, a periodic train of ground-state dropouts can be obtained. These dropouts act as gates for excited-state pulsations: during the dropout, the gate is opened and gain is made available for the excited state, and the gate is closed again when the dropout ends. Numerical simulations using a rate equation model are in excellent agreement with experimental results., SCOPUS: ar.j, info:eu-repo/semantics/published
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- 2016