Mid-infrared photonics articles within Nature

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• Article | 24 January 2024

  Nozaki–Bekki solitons in semiconductor lasers

  Free-running stable optical dissipative solitons, called Nozaki–Bekki solitons, are created in a ring semiconductor laser; their spontaneous formation with tuning of laser bias eliminates the need for an external optical pump.

  • Nikola Opačak
  • , Dmitry Kazakov
  •  & Benedikt Schwarz

• Letter | 26 March 2018

  Room-temperature nine-µm-wavelength photodetectors and GHz-frequency heterodyne receivers

  Quantum-well photodetectors fabricated from photonic metamaterials show enhanced room-temperature sensitivity to long-wavelength infrared radiation and produce gigahertz-frequency heterodyne signals when pumped with quantum cascade lasers.

  • Daniele Palaferri
  • , Yanko Todorov
  •  & Carlo Sirtori

• Letter | 12 December 2012

  Mid-infrared frequency comb based on a quantum cascade laser

  A broadband, compact, all-electrically driven mid-infrared frequency comb based on a quantum cascade laser widens the scope of application of combs in this frequency range beyond that of sources which depend on a chain of optical components.

  • Andreas Hugi
  • , Gustavo Villares
  •  & Jérôme Faist