Demystifying Semiconductor Self-Mode-Locking without Saturable Absorber
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Escoto, Esmerando; Demircan, Ayhan; Babushkin, Ihar; Steinmeyer, Gunter
- Source
- 2020 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2020 Conference on. :1-2 May, 2020
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Laser mode locking
Mathematical model
Coherence
Absorption
Four-wave mixing
Quantum cascade lasers
- Language
Self-mode-locking of semiconductor lasers has been frequently reported, defying all known solutions of the Haus Master Equation approach. Here we show that four-wave mixing all by itself suffices to mode-lock a laser.