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Ultrashort laser pulse doubling by metal-halide perovskite multiple quantum wells

Jia Guo, Tanghao Liu, Mingjie Li, Chao Liang, Kaiyang Wang, Guo Hong, Yuxin Tang, Guankui Long, S. F. Yu, Tae‐Woo Lee, Wei Huang, Guichuan Xing

2020Nature Communications74 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

Multiple ultrashort laser pulses are widely used in optical spectroscopy, optoelectronic manipulation, optical imaging and optical signal processing etc. The laser pulse multiplication, so far, is solely realized by using the optical setups or devices to modify the output laser pulse from the optical gain medium. The employment of these external techniques is because the gain medium itself is incapable of modifying or multiplying the generated laser pulse. Herein, with single femtosecond laser pulse excitation, we achieve the double-pulsed stimulated emission with pulse duration of around 40 ps and pulse interval of around 70 ps from metal-halide perovskite multiple quantum wells. These unique stimulated emissions originate from one fast vertical and the other slow lateral high-efficiency carrier funneling from low-dimensional to high-dimensional quantum wells. Furthermore, such gain medium surprisingly possesses nearly Auger-free stimulated emission. These insights enable us a fresh approach to multiple the ultrashort laser pulse by gain medium.

Topics & Concepts

LaserUltrashort pulseFemtosecondMaterials scienceOptoelectronicsFemtosecond pulse shapingOpticsMultiphoton intrapulse interference phase scanPulse (music)Active laser mediumQuantum wellUltrafast laser spectroscopyBandwidth-limited pulsePhysicsLaser power scalingDetectorLaser-Matter Interactions and ApplicationsSolid State Laser TechnologiesAdvanced Fiber Laser Technologies