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The ideal laser source for the emerging research field of nonlinear Terahertz (THz) spectroscopy should offer radiation with a large versatility and deliver both ultra-intense multi-octave spanning single-cycle pulses and user-selectable…

A quantum computer is proposed in which information is stored in the two lowest electronic states of doped quantum dots (QDs). Many QDs are located in a microcavity. A pair of gates controls the energy levels in each QD. A Controlled Not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-17 Mark S. Sherwin , Atac Imamoglu , Thomas Montroy

We present a theoretical investigation of terahertz (THz) generation in laser-induced gas plasmas. The work is strongly motivated by recent experimental results on micro-plasmas, but our general findings are not limited to such a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 I. Thiele , R. Nuter , B. Bousquet , V. Tikhonchuk , X. Davoine , L. Gremillet , L. Bergé , S. Skupin

We experimentally investigate and analyze the electrical and optical characteristics of GaAs-based conventional quantum well laser diodes and the quantum well laser diodes with slightly-doped tunnel junction. It was found that TJ LD show a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 Yajie Li , Pengfei Wang , Fangyuan Meng , Hongyan Yu , Xuliang Zhou , Huolei Wang , Jiaoqing Pan

The efficiency and operating range of a photonic crystal laser is improved by passivating the InGaAs quantum well (QW) gain medium and GaAs membrane using an (NH4)S treatment. The passivated laser shows a four-fold reduction in nonradiative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dirk Englund , Hatice Altug , Jelena Vuckovic

A laser model is formulated in terms of quantum harmonic oscillators. Emitters in the low lasing states are usual harmonic oscillators, and emitters in the upper states are inverted harmonic oscillators. Diffusion coefficients, consistent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Igor E. Protsenko , Alexander V. Uskov

Although most work toward the realization of group IV quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) has focused on valence-band transitions, there are many desirable properties associated with the conduction band. We show that the commonly cited…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-12 A. Valavanis , L. Lever , C. A. Evans , Z. Ikonić , R. W. Kelsall

In this work, the linear absorption spectra for periodic arrays of GaAs-GaAsAl quantum wells with different thicknesses, inside electromagnetic wave has been studied. The eigen energies and eigen functions are calculated by solving the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-26 Zahra Javidi , Mehdi Hosseini , Mohammad Javad Karimi

High-quality micro-lasers are key ingredients in non-linear optics, communication, sensing and low-threshold solar-pumped lasers. However, such micro-lasers exhibit negligible absorption of free-space broadband pump light. Recently, this…

We analyse the extraction of a coherent atomic beam from a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate using a rf transition to a non-trapping state at T=0 K. Our quantum treatment fully takes gravity into account but neglects all interactions in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. Gerbier , P. Bouyer , A. Aspect

Based on spatial-temporal symmetry breaking mechanism, we propose a novel scheme for terahertz (THz) wave generation from hyper-Raman lines associated with the 0th harmonic (a particular even harmonic) in a two-level quantum system driven…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 Wei Zhang , Shi-Fang Guo , Su-Qing Duan , Xian-Geng Zhao

The dynamics of molecular electron excitation and ionisation is studied in real-time for ultra-short IR laser pulses of intensity I>10^{13} W/cm^{2}. The multi-electron molecule is modeled by a system of two active electrons moving in a…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. I. Pegarkov

In this work we study a possibility of waveguide fabrication on the basis of active quantum wells in semiconductor lasers. The efficiency of such a waveguide for an InP structure with In0.53Ga0.47As quantum wells is demonstrated…

Using optical technology for current injection and electromagnetic emission simplifies the comparison between materials. Here, we inject current into monolayer graphene and bulk gallium arsenide (GaAs) using two-color quantum interference…

The efficiency of extracting single atoms or molecules from an ultracold bosonic reservoir is theoretically investigated for a protocol based on lasers, coupling the hyperfine state in which the atoms form a condensate to another stable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-10 Stefano Zippilli , Bernd Mohring , Eric Lutz , Giovanna Morigi , Wolfgang Schleich

On-chip electron sources have wide potential applications in miniature vacuum electronic devices and emission efficiency is one of their performance benchmarks. A cascade electron source based on series metal-insulator-metal horizontal…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Zhiwei Li , Xianlong Wei

A Python package to evaluate Wannier, Wannier-Stark, and EZ (both Energy and location Z resolved) levels for Quantum Cascade Lasers is presented. We provide the underlying theory in detail with a focus on the orthonormality and periodicity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Zakaria Mohamed , D. Ekin Önder , Andreas Wacker

Generation of terahertz radiation by an oscillating discharge, excited with short laser pulses, may be controlled by geometry of the irradiated target. In this work, an annular target with a thin slit is considered as an efficient emitter…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-06 N. Bukharskii , Iu. Kochetkov , Ph. Korneev

Harmonic comb state has proven to be emerging in quantum cascade lasers and promoted by an interplay between parametric gain and spatial hole burning. We report here on robust, pure, self-starting harmonic mode locking in Copper-based…

For the coherently driven \Lambda-type three-level systems the general ready-to-calculate expression for the susceptibility tensor at the frequency of the weak probe field is obtained for the arbitrary polarization of the strong coupling…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-14 V. A. Reshetov , I. V. Meleshko