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We present here a semiconductor injection laser operating in continuous wave with an emission covering more than one octave in frequency, and displaying homogeneous power distribution among the lasing modes. The gain medium is based on a…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-22 Markus Rösch , Giacomo Scalari , Mattias Beck , Jérôme Faist

The homogeneous electron gas is a cornerstone of quantum condensed matter physics, providing the foundation for developing density functional theory and understanding electronic phases in semiconductors. However, theoretical understanding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-12 Filippo Gaggioli , Pierre-Antoine Graham , Liang Fu

Integrated optical devices may replace bulk crystal or fiber based assemblies with a more compact and controllable photon pair and heralded single photon source and generate quantum light at telecommunications wavelengths. Here, we propose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jun Rong Ong , Shayan Mookherjea

The science and applications of electronics and optoelectronics have been driven for decades by progress in growth of semiconducting heterostructures. Many applications in the infrared and terahertz frequency range exploit transitions…

Semiconductor nanocrystals can be synthesized using inexpensive, scalable, solution-based techniques, and their utility as tunable light emitters has been demonstrated in various applications, including biolabeling and light-emitting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Chunxing She , Igor Fedin , Dmitriy S. Dolzhnikov , Arnaud Demortière , Richard D. Schaller , Matthew Pelton , Dmitri V. Talapin

We analyze the interaction of a propagating guided electromagnetic wave with a quantum well embedded in a dielectric slab waveguide. First, we design a quantum well based on InAlGaAs compounds with the transition energy of 0.8eV…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Farhad Karimi , Sina Khorasani

The recent progress on (Si)GeSn optoelectronic devices holds a great promising for photonic integration on the Si substrate. In parallel to the development of bulk devices, the (Si)GeSn based quantum wells (QWs) have been investigated…

We propose a simple quantum system, namely, a nested quantum-well structure, which is able to generate a train of half-cycle pulses of a few-fs duration, when driven by a static electric field. We theoretically investigate the emission of…

Due to their high optical phonon energies GaInP/AlGaInP heterostructures are a promising active medium to solve the problem of creating compact semiconductor sources with an operating frequency range of 5.5-7 THz. In this work, the…

An asymmetric double quantum wells (QWs) structure with resonant tunneling is suggested to achieve high efficient four wave mixing (FWM). We analytically demonstrate that the resonant tunneling can induce high efficient mixing wave in such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-26 Hui Sun , Shuangli Fan , Hongjun Zhang , Shangqing Gong

In order to achieve electrically pumped plasmon nano lasers, several structures, materials and methods, have been proposed recently. However, there is still a long way to find out a reliable appropriate on-chip plasmon source for commercial…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Hamed Ghodsi , Hassan Kaatuzian , Elahe Rastergar Pashaki

We show the formation of bright and dark slow optical solitons based on intersubband transitions in a semiconductor quantum well (SQW). Using the coupled Schrodinger-Maxwell approach, we provide both analytical and numerical results. Such a…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wen-Xing Yang , Ray-Kuang Lee

We report on a photoconductive gain in semiconductor quantum wires which are lithographically defined in an AlGaAs/GaAs quantum well via a shallow-etch technique. The effect allows resolving the one-dimensional subbands of the quantum wires…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-07 K. -D. Hof , C. Rossler , S. Manus , J. P. Kotthaus , A. W. Holleitner , D. Schuh , W. Wegscheider

A method is presented for fabrication of femtosecond laser written waveguides in glass to remove the need for polishing of substrates after processing. It is shown that by amplitude masking the fabrication laser beam near the sample edge…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-25 Zhi-Kai Pong , Mohan Wang , Ji Qin , Martin J. Booth , Patrick S. Salter

Monolithically combining silicon nitride (SiNx) photonics technology with III-V active devices could open a broad range of on-chip applications spanning a wide wavelength range of ~400-4000 nm. With the development of nitride, arsenide, and…

Fundamental to many applications of laser pulses in science and technology is an extended interaction length with matter that significantly exceeds the distance over which the pulse would normally diffract and transversely spread. At low…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 J. E. Shrock , B. Miao , E. Rockafellow , H. M. Milchberg

Terahertz quantum cascade lasers based on InGaAs wells and quaternary AlInGaAs barriers were measured in magnetic field. This study was carried out on a four quantum well active region design with photon energy of 14.3 meV processed both…

The realization of a cavity soliton laser using a vertical-cavity surface-emitting semiconductor gain structure coupled to an external cavity with a frequency-selective element is reported. All-optical control of bistable solitonic emission…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Tanguy , T. Ackemann , W. J. Firth , R. Jaeger

We propose a novel scheme for controlling the injection of a high-quality electron bunch into a channel-guided laser plasma accelerator. This all-optical technique, constricted waveguide injection, creates a highly tunable controlled…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 R. J. Shalloo , A. Ferran Pousa , M. Mewes , S. Jalas , M. Kirchen , R. D'Arcy , J. Osterhoff , K. Põder , M. Thévenet

We provide an analytic study of the dynamics of semiconductor lasers with injection (pump) of spin-polarized electrons, previously considered in the steady-state regime. Using complementary approaches of quasi-static and small signal…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Jeongsu Lee , William Falls , Rafal Oszwaldowski , Igor Zutic