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physics.optics2026

Dynamically reconfigurable THz quantum walk comb laser through subharmonic excitation

Valerio Digiorgio, Robert Matthew Gray, Marco Raffa +5

On-chip frequency combs are increasingly relevant to both laser science and applications. Broad bandwidths and flat-top spectral envelopes are especially desirable for precision sp…

physics.optics2024

On-chip, inverse-designed active wavelength division multiplexer at THz frequencies

Valerio Digiorgio, Urban Senica, Paolo Micheletti +3

The development of photonic integrated components for terahertz has become an active and growing research field. Despite its numerous applications, several challenges are still pre…

physics.optics2024★ 4 cited

Continuously tunable coherent pulse generation in semiconductor lasers

Urban Senica, Michael A. Schreiber, Paolo Micheletti +4

In a laser, the control of its spectral emission depends on the physical dimensions of the optical resonator, limiting it to a set of discrete cavity modes at specific frequencies.…

physics.optics2023★ 11 cited

Broadband surface-emitting THz laser frequency combs with inverse-designed integrated reflectors

Urban Senica, Sebastian Gloor, Paolo Micheletti +4

THz quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) based on double metal waveguides feature broadband and high-temperature devices for use in spectroscopy and sensing. However, their extreme field…

physics.optics2022

THz optical solitons from dispersion-compensated antenna-coupled planarized ring quantum cascade lasers

Paolo Micheletti, Urban Senica, Andres Forrer +6

Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCL) constitute an intriguing opportunity for the production of on-chip optical Dissipative Kerr Solitons (DKS): self-organized optical waves which can trav…

physics.optics2022★ 53 cited

Planarized THz quantum cascade lasers for broadband coherent photonics

Urban Senica, Andres Forrer, Tudor Olariu +6

Recently, there has been a growing interest in integrated THz photonics for various applications in communications, spectroscopy and sensing. We present a new integrated photonic p…

physics.optics2021★ 26 cited

Regenerative Terahertz Quantum Detectors

Paolo Micheletti, Jerome Faist, Tudor Olariu +3

Because of the ultrafast and photon-driven nature of the transport in their active region, we demonstrate that quantum cascade lasers can be operated as resonantly amplified terahe…