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Spectrally resolved linewidth enhancement factor of a semiconductor frequency comb

Optics 2021-04-14 v1 Applied Physics

Abstract

The linewidth enhancement factor (LEF) has recently moved into the spotlight of research on frequency comb generation in semiconductor lasers. Here we present a novel modulation experiment, which enables the direct measurement of the spectrally resolved LEF in a laser frequency comb. By utilizing a phase-sensitive technique, we are able to extract the LEF for each comb mode. We first investigate and verify this universally applicable technique using Maxwell-Bloch simulations and then present the experimental demonstration on a quantum cascade laser frequency comb.

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@article{arxiv.2104.05747,
  title  = {Spectrally resolved linewidth enhancement factor of a semiconductor frequency comb},
  author = {Nikola Opačak and Florian Pilat and Dmitry Kazakov and Sandro Dal Cin and Georg Ramer and Bernhard Lendl and Federico Capasso and Benedikt Schwarz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.05747},
  year   = {2021}
}
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