Pulses from a mid-infrared quantum cascade laser frequency comb using an external compressor

Abstract

A Martinez-type stretcher-compressor is used to modify the spectral phases of a high-power (~1 W) QCL comb emitted at 8.2 μm with more than 100 cm-1 spectral bandwidth. Using this scheme, we demonstrate a compression of the QCL output from a 134 ps continuous wave waveform, to a train of pulses of width 12 ps, and a power with peak to average ratio of 40.7. An evaluation of the phase noise of the free-running device yields an integrated timing jitter of 335 fs over the frequency range 20 kHz - 100 MHz, and a pulse-to-pulse jitter of 2.0 fs.

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