Wavelength Stabilized External Cavity Quantum Cascade Lasers using Cavity Resonator Integrated Grating Filters
Abstract
External cavity diode lasers (ECDLs) are a standard way of building single-mode and narrow-linewidth sources [1], while keeping the intrinsic benefits of semiconductor lasers like compactness, low-cost and high-modulation capability. Traditional ECDLs design uses a bulk diffraction grating in Littrow or Littman/Metcalf configurations. In this paper, we report on the use of recently demonstrated MIR Cavity Resonator Integrated Grating Filters (MIR-CRIGFs) [2] to implement an alternative configuration using a compact and stable cat's-eye configuration.
Keywords
Gain
Laser cavity resonators
Gratings
Resonator filters
Optical filters
Quantum cascade lasers
Lafaye
"Mid- infrared cavity resonator integrated grating filters"
Optics Express
26
27014-27020
2018 [3] S Augé
A Monmayrant
S Pelloquin
J B Doucet
and O Gauthier-Lafaye
"Tunable graded cavity resonator integrated grating filters" Optics Express
25
12415-12420
2017
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