ULTRAQCL
Ultrashort Pulse Generation from Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers
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Project "ULTRAQCL" data sheet
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| Coordinator |
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
Organization address contact info |
| Coordinator Country | France [FR] |
| Project website | http://www.ultraqcl.eu |
| Total cost | 2˙798˙445 € |
| EC max contribution | 2˙798˙445 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.2.1. (FET Open) |
| Code Call | H2020-FETOPEN-2014-2015-RIA |
| Funding Scheme | RIA |
| Starting year | 2015 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2015-10-01 to 2019-03-31 |
Partnership
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS | FR (PARIS) | coordinator | 630˙155.00 |
| 2 | UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS | UK (LEEDS) | participant | 742˙318.00 |
| 3 | CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE | IT (ROMA) | participant | 620˙537.00 |
| 4 | UNIVERSITAET REGENSBURG | DE (REGENSBURG) | participant | 464˙295.00 |
| 5 | UNIVERSITE PARIS-SUD | FR (ORSAY CEDEX) | participant | 341˙138.00 |
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Project objective
The generation of ultrafast and intense light pulses is an underpinning technology across the electromagnetic spectrum enabling the study of fundamental light-matter interactions, as well as industrial exploitation in a plethora of applications across the physical, chemical and biological sciences. A benchmark system for such studies is the modelocked Ti:Sapphire laser, which has grown from being a laboratory curiosity to an essential tool in a broad range of application sectors. Beyond Ti:Sapphire systems, there have been impressive developments in semiconductor based devices for pulse generation in the optical range. These benefit from low system costs and are an enabling technology in new application domains including high speed communications.
However, in the terahertz (THz) frequency range, with its proven applications in imaging, metrology and non-destructive testing, a semiconductor based technology platform for intense and short pulse generation has yet to be realised. Ultrafast excitation of photoconductive switches or nonlinear crystals offer only low powers, low frequency modulation or broadband emission with little control of the spectral bandwidth.
In the ULTRAQCL project we will breakthrough this technological gap, using THz quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) as a foundational semiconductor device for generating intense and short THz pulses. QCLs are the only practical semiconductor system that offer gain at THz frequencies, hence making them suitable for pulse generation, with the ‘bandstructure-by-design’ nature of QCLs allowing the frequency, bandwidth and pulse width to be entirely engineered. We will demonstrate: the first self-starting (passive) mode-locked THz QCL; the first hybrid modelocked THz QCL; the first gain-switched modelocked QCL; and, the first pulse generation in QCLs with on-chip dispersion compensation. The ULTRAQCL project will implement these radical schemes for pulse generation enabling ultrafast QCLs to become a ubiquitous technology for the THz range.
Deliverables
| Passive intracavity mode-locking with polaritonic saturable absorber | Documents, reports | 2019-12-12 09:52:13 |
| Technology showcase event | Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. | 2019-12-12 09:52:13 |
| Lasing SIT-QCL devices | Documents, reports | 2019-12-12 09:52:13 |
| Measurement of saturation powers and lifetimes in Ge:As | Documents, reports | 2019-12-12 09:52:13 |
| Workshop at international QCL school | Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. | 2019-12-12 09:52:13 |
| ULTRAQCL website | Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. | 2019-12-12 09:52:13 |
| High field system for THz range | Documents, reports | 2019-12-12 09:52:13 |
| Generation of sub-10ps pulses | Documents, reports | 2019-12-12 09:52:12 |
| Realisation of THz polariton system | Documents, reports | 2019-12-12 09:52:13 |
| Antenna structures | Documents, reports | 2019-12-12 09:52:12 |
Take a look to the deliverables list in detail: detailed list of ULTRAQCL deliverables.
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 |
Luigi Consolino, Annamaria Campa, Davide Mazzotti, Miriam Vitiello, Paolo De Natale, Saverio Bartalini Bow-Tie Cavity for Terahertz Radiation published pages: 1, ISSN: 2304-6732, DOI: 10.3390/photonics6010001 |
Photonics 6/1 | 2019-12-12 |
| 2018 |
P.B. Vigneron, F. Joint, N. Isac, R. Colombelli, E. Herth Advanced and reliable GaAs/AlGaAs ICP-DRIE etching for optoelectronic, microelectronic and microsystem applications published pages: 42-50, ISSN: 0167-9317, DOI: 10.1016/j.mee.2018.09.001 |
Microelectronic Engineering 202 | 2019-12-12 |
| 2018 |
Iman Kundu, Feihu Wang, Xiaoqiong Qi, Hanond Nong, Paul Dean, Joshua R. Freeman, Alexander Valavanis, Gary Agnew, Andrew T. Grier, Thomas Taimre, Lianhe Li, Dragan Indjin, Juliette Mangeney, Jérôme Tignon, Sukhdeep S. Dhillon, Aleksandar D. Rakić, John E. Cunningham, Edmund H. Linfield, A. Giles Davies Ultrafast switch-on dynamics of frequency-tuneable semiconductor lasers published pages: , ISSN: 2041-1723, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05601-x |
Nature Communications 9/1 | 2019-12-12 |
| 2017 |
S. Massabeau, M. Baillergeau, T. Phuphachong, C. Berger, W. A. de Heer, S. Dhillon, J. Tignon, L. A. de Vaulchier, R. Ferreira, J. Mangeney Evidence of Fermi level pinning at the Dirac point in epitaxial multilayer graphene published pages: , ISSN: 2469-9950, DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.95.085311 |
Physical Review B 95/8 | 2019-12-12 |
| 2017 |
Matthias Knorr, Jürgen Raab, Maximilian Tauer, Philipp Merkl, Dominik Peller, Emanuel Wittmann, Eberhard Riedle, Christoph Lange, Rupert Huber Phase-locked multi-terahertz electric fields exceeding 13  MV/cm at a 190  kHz repetition rate published pages: 4367, ISSN: 0146-9592, DOI: 10.1364/ol.42.004367 |
Optics Letters 42/21 | 2019-12-12 |
| 2019 |
Jürgen Raab, Christoph Lange, Jessica L. Boland, Ignaz Laepple, Martin Furthmeier, Enrico Dardanis, Nils Dessmann, Lianhe Li, Edmund H. Linfield, A. Giles Davies, Miriam S. Vitiello, Rupert Huber Ultrafast two-dimensional field spectroscopy of terahertz intersubband saturable absorbers published pages: 2248, ISSN: 1094-4087, DOI: 10.1364/oe.27.002248 |
Optics Express 27/3 | 2019-12-12 |
| 2017 |
K. Maussang, J. Palomo, J.-M. Manceau, R. Colombelli, I. Sagnes, L. H. Li, E. H. Linfield, A. G. Davies, J. Mangeney, J. Tignon, S. S. Dhillon Monolithic echo-less photoconductive switches as a high-resolution detector for terahertz time-domain spectroscopy published pages: 141102, ISSN: 0003-6951, DOI: 10.1063/1.4979536 |
Applied Physics Letters 110/14 | 2019-12-12 |
| 2018 |
Michele De Regis, Luigi Consolino, Saverio Bartalini, Paolo De Natale Waveguided Approach for Difference Frequency Generation of Broadly-Tunable Continuous-Wave Terahertz Radiation published pages: 2374, ISSN: 2076-3417, DOI: 10.3390/app8122374 |
Applied Sciences 8/12 | 2019-12-12 |
| 2017 |
B. Paulillo, S. Pirotta, H. Nong, P. Crozat, S. Guilet, G. Xu, S. Dhillon, L. H. Li, A. G. Davies, E. H. Linfield, R. Colombelli Ultrafast terahertz detectors based on three-dimensional meta-atoms published pages: 1451, ISSN: 2334-2536, DOI: 10.1364/optica.4.001451 |
Optica 4/12 | 2019-12-12 |
| 2017 |
L.H. Li, L. Chen, J.R. Freeman, M. Salih, P. Dean, A.G. Davies, E.H. Linfield Multi-Watt high-power THz frequency quantum cascade lasers published pages: 799-800, ISSN: 0013-5194, DOI: 10.1049/el.2017.0662 |
Electronics Letters 53/12 | 2019-12-12 |
| 2018 |
Luigi Consolino, Francesco Cappelli, Mario Siciliani de Cumis, Paolo De Natale QCL-based frequency metrology from the mid-infrared to the THz range: a review published pages: 181-204, ISSN: 2192-8614, DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2018-0076 |
Nanophotonics 8/2 | 2019-12-12 |
| 2018 |
L.H. Li, K. Garrasi, I. Kundu, Y.J. Han, M. Salih, M.S. Vitiello, A.G. Davies, E.H. Linfield Broadband heterogeneous terahertz frequency quantum cascade laser published pages: 1229-1231, ISSN: 0013-5194, DOI: 10.1049/el.2018.6062 |
Electronics Letters 54/21 | 2019-12-12 |
| 2017 |
Feihu Wang, Hanond Nong, Tobias Fobbe, Valentino Pistore, Sarah Houver, Sergej Markmann, Nathan Jukam, Maria Amanti, Carlo Sirtori, Souad Moumdji, Raffaele Colombelli, Lianhe Li, Edmund Linfield, Giles Davies, Juliette Mangeney, Jérôme Tignon, Sukhdeep Dhillon Short Terahertz Pulse Generation from a Dispersion Compensated Modelocked Semiconductor Laser published pages: 1700013, ISSN: 1863-8880, DOI: 10.1002/lpor.201700013 |
Laser & Photonics Reviews 11/4 | 2019-12-12 |
| 2019 |
Katia Garrasi, Francesco P. Mezzapesa, Luca Salemi, Lianhe Li, Luigi Consolino, Saverio Bartalini, Paolo De Natale, A. Giles Davies, Edmund H. Linfield, Miriam S. Vitiello High Dynamic Range, Heterogeneous, Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers Featuring Thermally Tunable Frequency Comb Operation over a Broad Current Range published pages: 73-78, ISSN: 2330-4022, DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.8b01483 |
ACS Photonics 6/1 | 2019-12-12 |
| 2018 |
Michele De Regis, Saverio Bartalini, Marco Ravaro, Davide Calonico, Paolo De Natale, Luigi Consolino Room-Temperature Continuous-Wave Frequency-Referenced Spectrometer up to 7.5 THz published pages: , ISSN: 2331-7019, DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.10.064041 |
Physical Review Applied 10/6 | 2019-12-12 |
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