Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)
Dual-mode lasing and beating oscillations in a microscopic laser based on electromagnetically induced transparency
Kristian Seegert, Yi Yu, Mikkel Heuck, Jesper Mørk
Abstract
We suggest and analyze a new type of microscopic laser, which uses a highly dispersive mirror to achieve stable dual-mode lasing. The mirror-dispersion is implemented using electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) between two coupled nanocavities and allows a beat note frequency that is dynamically tunable. In contrast, a conventional laser resonator of the same length cannot address this frequency range. Thus, the proposed laser has potential applications in photonic microwave generation, terahertz sensing, and all-optical clock recovery [1].