All-optical switching in quantum cascade lasers

C. Zervos; M. D. Frogley; C. C. Phillips; Dmytro O. Kundys; L. R. Wilson; M. Hopkinson; M. S. Skolnick

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All-optical switching in quantum cascade lasers

C. Zervos^*, M. D. Frogley, C. C. Phillips, Dmytro O. Kundys, L. R. Wilson, M. Hopkinson, M. S. Skolnick

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The authors demonstrate the switching of the midinfrared output of a quantum cascade laser (QCL) using a near infrared control laser. The present, unoptimized, device offers 100% modulation depths, at approximately 50% of the maximum QCL output power, and has a switching energy of similar to 15 nJ. It works as a resettable photon flux integrator which would give it a retiming function if used as a component for optical free space communications.

Original language	English
Article number	053505
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	90
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2435602
Publication status	Published - 29 Jan 2007

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