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A detailed rate-equation-based model is developed to study carrier transport effects on optical and electrical characteristics of the Multiple Quantum Well Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor Laser in time-domain. Simulation results extracted…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-05 Iman Taghavi , Hassan Kaatuzian , Jean-Pierre Leburton

We explore the dynamics of a system where input spectra in the optical domain with very disparate center frequencies are strongly coupled via highly phase-matched, cascaded second-order nonlinear processes driven by terahertz radiation. The…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-08 Koustuban Ravi , Franz X. Kärtner

This paper explores the use of quantum computing, specifically the use of HHL and VQLS algorithms, to solve optimal power flow problem in electrical grids. We investigate the effectiveness of these quantum algorithms in comparison to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Sajad Fathi Hafshejani , Md Mohsin Uddin , David Neufeld , Daya Gaur , Robert Benkoczi

Terahertz (THz) lasers on optically pumped multiple-graphene-layer (MGL) structures as their active region are proposed and evaluated. The developed device model accounts for the interband and intraband transitions in the degenerate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 V. Ryzhii , A. A. Dubinov , T. Otsuji , V. Mitin , M. S. Shur

Quantum Hall system possesses topologically protected edge states which have enormous theoretical and practical implications in both fermionic and bosonic systems. Harnessing the quantum Hall effect in optical platforms with lower…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-16 Shirong Lin , Luojia Wang , Luqi Yuan , Xianfeng Chen

Ultrafast pump-probe technique is a powerful tool to understand and manipulate properties of materials for designing novel quantum devices. An intense, single cycle terahertz pulse can change the intrinsic properties of semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-13 Chen-Yen Lai , D. A. Yarotski , Jian-Xin Zhu

A new mechanism for the THz light amplification is identified ina non-resonant Raman scattering between the THz light and a visible light lasers. The non-resonant scattering normally does not exchange the energy between E \&M fields, but…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-19 S. Son

A laser is not necessarily a sophisticated device: Pumping energy into an amplifying medium randomly filled with scatterers, a powder for instance, makes a perfect "random laser." In such a laser, the absence of mirrors greatly simplifies…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 N. Bachelard , S. Gigan , X. Noblin , P. Sebbah

Novel thin-disk laser pump layouts are proposed yielding an increased number of passes for a given pump module size and pump source quality. These novel layouts result from a general scheme which bases on merging two simpler pump optics…

We analyze the peculiar case where the free carrier absorption arising from LO phonon absorption-assisted transitions becomes negative and therefore turns into a gain source for quantum cascade lasers. Such an additional source of gain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 C. Ndebeka-Bandou , M. Rösch , K. Ohtani , M. Beck , J. Faist

THz quantum cascade lasers based on a novel buried cavity geometry are demonstrated by combining double-metal waveguides with proton implantation. Devices are realised with emission at 2.8 THz, displaying ultra low threshold currents of 19…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Dhillon , J. Alton , S. Barbieri , C. Sirtori , A. de Rossi , M. Calligaro , H. E. Beere , D. Ritchie

We study how much the efficiency of a solar cell as a quantum heat engine could be enhanced by quantum coherence. In contrast to the conventional approach that a quantum heat engine is in thermal equilibrium with both hot and cold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-28 Sangchul Oh

Laser-plasma accelerators offer a compact means of producing high-energy electron beams, but their performance is fundamentally limited by dephasing between the accelerated electrons and the plasma wave. To overcome this limitation, we…

We characterized the DC transport response of a diode embedded in a THz quantum cascade laser as the laser current was changed. The overall response is described by parallel contributions from the rectification of the laser field due to the…

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

We develop a full quantum-optical approach for optical self-feedback of a microcavity laser. These miniaturized devices work in a regime between the quantum and classical limit and are test-beds for the differences between a quantized…

We consider the interaction between a Bose-Einstein condensate and a single-mode quantized light field in the presence of a strong far off-resonant pump laser. The dynamics is characterized by an exponential instability, hence the system…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. G. Moore , O. Zobay , P. Meystre

Optically induced ultrafast switching of single photons is demonstrated by rotating the photon polarization via the Kerr effect in a commercially available single mode fiber. A switching efficiency of 97\% is achieved with a $\sim1.7$\,ps…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Connor Kupchak , Jennifer Erskine , Duncan G. England , Benjamin J. Sussman

The advent of high-intensity ultrafast laser pulses has opened new opportunities for controlling and designing quantum materials. In particular, terahertz (THz) pulses can resonantly drive optical phonon modes, enabling dynamic manipulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Yulong Qiao , Richard. Matthias Geilhufe

New configuration of confinement structure is utilized to improve optoelectronic performances, including threshold current, AC current gain as well as optical bandwidth and optical output power of single quantum well transistor laser.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 Mohammad Hosseini , Hassan Kaatuzian , Iman Taghavi