Dehua Li

Ultranarrow linewidth and high gain of an optical cavity with enhanced self-Kerr nonlinearity in quantum dot molecules

The enhanced self-Kerr nonlinearity of quantum dot molecules may be used to realize optical cavities with an ultranarrow linewidth and high gain. The resonant tunneling induces constructive interference for the self-Kerr nonlinearity, and then a narrow gain window with large normal dispersion appears with frequency detuning. The competition between linear and nonlinear dispersion leads to strong normal dispersion of the total susceptibility, which significantly narrows the cavity linewidth; the nonlinear gain introduces the total gain effects contributing to high transmission. Simulation results show that the cavity linewidth could be narrowed by nearly 30 times and the transmission peak enhanced about 40 times compared with a linear case.

Femtosecond pulse generation with an a-cut Nd:CaYAlO 4 disordered crystal

We experimentally demonstrated a diode-pumped 587 fs ultrafast laser by using an a-cut Nd:CaYAlO4 crystal. Pumped by an 808 nm fiber-coupled laser diode, a stable continuous-wave mode-locked ultrafast laser was achieved with a semiconductor saturable absorber. The ultrafast pulses had a repetition rate of 75 MHz at the center wavelength of 1080.8 nm. A maximum average output power of the mode-locked laser reached 375 mW delivering a slope efficiency of 9%.

Tunneling-induced high gain and narrow linewidth of a cavity with an asymmetric quantum-well system

A scheme is proposed for obtaining high gain and narrow linewidth of a cavity with an asymmetric quantum-well system. Due to resonant tunneling, destructive interference for linear absorption leads to a tunneling-induced transparency window which compresses the cavity linewidth; moreover, constructive interference for cross-nonlinear susceptibility occurs, which introduces high gain and large dispersion, and the cavity linewidth is much compressed. In the latter case, the intensity of cavity transmission could be enhanced one order of magnitude larger than that of input field, and its linewidth could be one-seventieth of the empty cavity.

Voltage-controlled optical precursors in quantum dot molecules

Abstract Optical precursors generated in a quantum-dot-molecule system by an incident square-modulated pulse are theoretically investigated. Voltage-controlled electron tunneling couples two quantum dots instead of a laser field, and a narrow transparency window appears with normal dispersion. The main pulse is delayed due to slow-light effect and the precursor pulses are obtained. We examine the linear susceptibility and find that its one part exhibits normal dispersion and the other one presents anomalous dispersion. Competition between the two parts leads to normal dispersion for the linear susceptibility, which contributes to the above results. Voltage-controlled precursors may be useful to design novel optical devices for generating precursors.