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锥形太赫兹量子级联激光器输出功率与光束特性研究

徐天鸿 姚辰 万文坚 朱永浩 曹俊诚

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锥形太赫兹量子级联激光器输出功率与光束特性研究

徐天鸿, 姚辰, 万文坚, 朱永浩, 曹俊诚

Analyses of the output power and beam quality of the tapered terahertz quantum cascade lasers

Xu Tian-Hong, Yao Chen, Wan Wen-Jian, Zhu Yong-Hao, Cao Jun-Cheng
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  • 针对锥形太赫兹量子级联激光器, 利用有限差分波束传播法和速率方程法, 建立了准三维的太赫兹有源器件仿真模型, 能够对具有轴向非线性波导结构的激光器进行模拟. 利用此模型, 研究了锥角大小对激光器输出光功率及光束质量的影响. 仿真结果表明, 考虑到器件之间的光耦合效率, 为了达到最大的有效输出光功率, 锥形太赫兹量子级联激光器的锥角存在一个最优值.
    We present a quasi-three-dimensional efficient model for simulating and designing the terahertz quantum cascade laser with nonlinear axial waveguide structure, based on the finite difference beam propagation method. The traditional beam propagation method is widely used to simulate the beam profile of the passive waveguide. In order to study the active device, however, the current induced variation in the active region should also be considered in the numerical simulation model. In the model presented in this paper, the phase and the amplitude of the propagating confined field in the active waveguide are determined by a few linear and non-linear effects. The parameters relating to the linear effects, such as the intrinsic refractive index profile and the intrinsic losses of the waveguide under zero current injection, are calculated by using COMSOL-Multiphysics. While the non-linear effects, such as the modal gain and the refractive index variation induced by current injection, are considered in a rigorous way by including the rate-equation set for calculating the carrier dynamics in the active region. The parameters used in the rate-equation set are obtained by referring to the literature and fitting the experimental results of the considered terahertz lasers. By adding the current induced gain and refractive index variation, the presented beam propagation model is able to simulate many current-dependant properties of a laser, such as the output power, the gain guiding effect, and the self-focusing effect. We show in this paper that the latter two effects have influence on inner-waveguide beam profile, and the competitive balance between them determines the output beam quality. By utilizing this numerical model, the terahertz quantum cascade laser with tapered waveguide structure is simulated, and the influences of the taper angle on output power and beam quality are investigated. According to the simulation results, we find that there is an obvious increase in the output power when the taper angle is increased from 0 to 3 degree, while the increment in the output power decreases rapidly when the taper angle is further increased. Besides, we observe that for the far field the full width at half maximum of the output beam decreases sharply with increasing the taper angle. However, when the taper angle equals 8 degree, multiple lateral modes are observed, which indicates poor output beam quality of this device and poor beam coupling efficiency between this device and the power meter.Therefore, although the simulation results show that the output power of this device is higher than that of the device with 5 degree taper angle, the experiment results show that the measured output power is lower. So the taper angle is not the larger the better, but there exists an optimum value, at which the terahertz quantum cascade laser can achieve the highest effective output power.
      通信作者: 曹俊诚, jccao@mail.sim.ac.cn
    • 基金项目: 国家重点基础研究发展计划(批准号: 2014CB339803)、国家高技术研究发展计划(批准号: 2011AA010205)、国家自然科学基金(批准号: 61131006, 61321492, 61176086, 61404149)、国家重大科学仪器设备开发专项(批准号: 2011YQ150021)、 02国家科技重大专项(批准号: 2011ZX02707)、中国科学院重要方向项目(批准号: YYYJ-1123-1)、中国科学院创新团队国际合作伙伴计划: 高迁移率材料工程创新团队项目和上海市青年科技英才扬帆计划(批准号: 15YF1414400)资助的课题.
      Corresponding author: Cao Jun-Cheng, jccao@mail.sim.ac.cn
    • Funds: Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2014CB339803), the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2011AA010205), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61131006, 61321492, 61176086, 61404149), the Major National Development Project of Scientific Instrument and Equipment of China (Grant No. 2011YQ150021), the National Science and Technology Major Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2011ZX02707), the Major Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. YYYJ-1123-1), the International Collaboration and Innovation Program on High Mobility Materials Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Shanghai Yang Fan Program, China (Grant No. 15YF1414400).
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    [22]

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