Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University Paris-Saclay, France
- Presents the first comprehensive analysis of quantum cascade laser nonlinear dynamics
- Includes the first observation of a temporal chaotic behavior in quantum cascade lasers
- Provides the first elucidation of the quantum cascade laser feedback regimes
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This thesis presents the first comprehensive analysis of quantum cascade laser nonlinear dynamics and includes the first observation of a temporal chaotic behavior in quantum cascade lasers. It also provides the first analysis of optical instabilities in the mid-infrared range.
Mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers are unipolar semiconductor lasers, which have become widely used in applications such as gas spectroscopy, free-space communications or optical countermeasures. Applying external perturbations such as optical feedback or optical injection leads to a strong modification of the quantum cascade laser properties. Optical feedback impacts the static properties of mid-infrared Fabry–Perot and distributed feedback quantum cascade lasers, inducing power increase; threshold reduction; modification of the optical spectrum, which can become either single- or multimode; and enhanced beam quality in broad-area transverse multimode lasers. It also leads to a different dynamical behavior, and a quantum cascade laser subject to optical feedback can oscillate periodically or even become chaotic. A quantum cascade laser under external control could therefore be a source with enhanced properties for the usual mid-infrared applications, but could also address new applications such as tunable photonic oscillators, extreme events generators, chaotic Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR), chaos-based secured communications or unpredictable countermeasures.Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Louise Jumpertz graduated from Institut d'Optique Graduate School (France) in 2013 with an Engineering degree and a Master of research in optics. She graduated with a PhD in Electronics and Communications from Telecom ParisTech (France) in collaboration with the company mirSense in November 2016. She is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher at the French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis. Her research interests are laser physics at various wavelengths (visible, near- and mid-infrared) and nonlinear optics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nonlinear Photonics in Mid-infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers
Authors: Louise Jumpertz
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65879-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65878-0Published: 11 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88121-8Published: 18 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65879-7Published: 31 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 134
Number of Illustrations: 94 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory, Semiconductors