Wide single-mode tuning in quantum cascade lasers with asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer type cavities with separately biased arms

Mei C. Zheng; Peter Q. Liu; Xiaojun Wang; Jen Yu Fan; Mariano Troccoli; Claire F. Gmachl

doi:10.1063/1.4832337

Wide single-mode tuning in quantum cascade lasers with asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer type cavities with separately biased arms

Mei C. Zheng, Peter Q. Liu, Xiaojun Wang, Jen Yu Fan, Mariano Troccoli, Claire F. Gmachl

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We report on the experimental demonstration of a widely tunable single mode quantum cascade laser with Asymmetric Mach-Zehnder (AMZ) interferometer type cavities with separately biased arms. Current and, consequently, temperature tuning of the two arms of the AMZ type cavity resulted in a single mode tuning range of 20 cm^-1 at 80 K in continuous-wave mode operation, a ten-fold improvement from the lasers under a single bias current. In addition, we also observed a five fold increase in the tuning rate as compared to the AMZ cavities controlled by one bias current.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	211112
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	103
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4832337
State	Published - Nov 18 2013

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