High-gain low-noise mid-infrared quantum cascade optical preamplifier for receiver

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-15

  Zhang, Huanlin ^a   Seetharaman, A ^a   Johnson, Pradeep ^a   Luo, Guipeng ^a   Le, Han Q ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b Protea Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) filter; Bragg grating (BG) coupler; Mid infrared (mid IR) optical preamplifier (OPA); Mid infrared (mid IR) receiver; Multispectral wavelength division multiplexing (WDM); Quantum cascade (QC); Surface emitting

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL LINKS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION (ASE) FILTER; BRAGG GRATING (BG) COUPLER; MID-INFRARED QUANTUM CASCADE; MID-INFRARED RECEIVER; OPTICAL PREAMPLIFIER; SURFACE EMITTING;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 12344329624     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.837478     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. M. J. Connely, Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers. Boston, MA: Kluwer, 2002.
2. J. Faist, F. Capasso, C. Sirtori, D. L. Sivco, and A. Y. Cho, Semiconductors and Semimetals. New York: Academic, 2000, vol. 66, pp. 1-83.
3. M. Troccoli, C. Gmachl, F. Capasso, D. L. Sivco, and A. Y. Cho, "Mid-infrared (λ ≈ 7.4 μm) quantum cascade laser amplifier for high power single-mode emission and improved beam quality," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 80, pp. 4103-4105, Jun. 2002.
4. H. Q. Le, "Optical amplifier element and array having input and/or output with tunable integrated optical filters and spetral discrimination," U.S. Patent Pending.
5. Y. Hu, A. Gubenko, G. Venus, I. Gadjiev, N. Il'inskaja, S. Nesterov, E. Portnoi, M. Dubov, and I. Khrushchev, "Gain switching of an external cavity grating-coupled surface emitting laser with wide tunability," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 82, pp. 4236-4237, Jun. 2003.
6. J. Jiang, O. Smolski, C. Roychoudhuri, E. Portnoi, G. Venus, I. Gadjiev, and J. Mckillop, "Broad tunability of grating coupled surface-emitting laser with external cavity," Electron. Lett., vol. 35, pp. 1847-1848, Oct. 1999.
7. M. Uemukai, T. Suhara, K. Yutani, N. Shimada, Y. Fukumoto, H. Nishihara, and A. Larsson, "Tunable external-cavity semiconductor laser using monolithically integrated tapered amplifier and grating coupler for collimation," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 12, no. 12, pp. 1607-1609, Dec. 2000.
8. G. P. Luo, C. Peng, H. Q. Le, S. S. Pei, W.-Y. Hwang, B. I. J. Um, J. N. Baillargeon, and J. Zheng, "Broadly wavelength-tunable external cavity mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers," IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 486-494, May 2002.