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University of Dundee DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY High power ultra-short pulse Quantum-dot lasers Nikitichev, Daniil I. Award date: 2012 Link to publication General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 08. Oct. 2021 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY High power ultra-short pulse Quantum-dot lasers Daniil I. Nikitichev 2012 University of Dundee Conditions for Use and Duplication Copyright of this work belongs to the author unless otherwise identified in the body of the thesis. It is permitted to use and duplicate this work only for personal and non-commercial research, study or criticism/review. You must obtain prior written consent from the author for any other use. Any quotation from this thesis must be acknowledged using the normal academic conventions. It is not permitted to supply the whole or part of this thesis to any other person or to post the same on any website or other online location without the prior written consent of the author. Contact the Discovery team ([email protected]) with any queries about the use or acknowledgement of this work. High power ultra-short pulse Quantum-dot lasers By Daniil I. Nikitichev A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy To the School of Electronic Engineering, Physics and Mathematics, University of Dundee University of Dundee January 2012 Declarations. I, Daniil I. Nikitichev, hereby certify that this thesis, which is forty nine thousand and five hundred words in length, has been written by me, that it is the record of work carried out by me and that it has not been submitted in any previous application for a higher degree. I was admitted as a research student and as a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in October 2008; the higher study for which this is a record was carried out at the University of Dundee between 2008 and 2012. In submitting this thesis to the University of Dundee I understand that I am giving permission for it to make available for use in accordance with the regulations of the University Library for the time being in force, subject to any copyright vested in the work not being affected thereby. I also understand that the title and abstract will be published, and that a copy of the work may be made and supplied to any bona fide library or research worker. Signature of candidate. Date. I hereby certify that the candidate has fulfilled the conditions of the Resolution and Regulations appropriate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Dundee and that the candidate is qualified to submit this thesis in application for that degree. Signature of supervisor. Date. ii Acknowledgements. I am very grateful for all those who have provided me support, advice, direction over the past four years and made the completion of this work possible. I would like to thank my supervisor Professor Edik Rafailov for this wonderful opportunity to work at the University of Dundee and for his constant support, insightful guidance and hard work in the proof-reading of this work and of many other manuscripts. I am especially thankful for another supervisor Dr. Maria Ana Cataluna who has spent many hours of her time helping me to understand some deeper concepts behind the semiconductor laser. Her genuine friendship and involvement in this work are much appreciated. Many thanks also go to Dr. Ying Ding with whom I have worked in the lab. His enthusiasm and support were very important for me. Every member of the Photonics and Nanoscience research group in the school of Engineering, Physics and Mathematics, University of Dundee, both past and present, contributed one way or the other in the success of this work, especially I would like to pay credit to Prof. Mervin Rose, Prof. Grigorii Sokolovskii, Dr. Natalia Bazieva, Dr. Ksenia Fedorova, Dr. Sergei Sokolovski, Mantas Butkus, Ross Leyman and Tomacz Kruczek- my apologies if I left anyone out. Moreover, I would like to express my deep appreciation for the excellent technical team who always help when the technical problems arouse. Many thanks go to Gary Callon, Grant Kydd and Callum Moore. iii As I was involved in the international project I have had an opportunity to meet, to work with and to learn from the researchers from III-V lab, Innolume, University of Sheffield, Tampere University of Technology, Politecnico di Torino, Technische Universitut Darmstadt, ICFO- the Institute of Photonic Sciences, University of Athens and St. Andrews University. Particularly, I would like to mention Michel Krakowski, Mike Ruiz, Dr. Igor Krestnikov, Dr. Daniil Livshits, Dr. Richard Hogg, Prof. Oleg Okhotnikov, Prof. Ivo Montrosset, Dr. Mattia Rossetti, Prof. Dimitris Syvridis, Dr. Charis Mesaritakis, Dr., Prof. Wolfgang Elsaesser, Dr. Lukas Drzewietzki, Dr. Pablo Losa- Alvarez, Rodrigo Aviles-Espinosa and Prof. Wilson Sibbett. I acknowledge the financial support of the EU FP7 “FAST-DOT” project Grant No. 224338. On a personal note, I am very grateful for my mother Irina Aleksandrovna, my brothers Kirill and Evgeny, my sister Marina and the parents of my wife Valentina Ivanovna and Vyacheslav Anatolyevich for their support while being far away from home. Most of all I appreciate the love of my wife, Anna, and my children, Matvey and Eva. Their constant support and sacrifices allowed me to finish this work successfully. Спасибо тебе моя дорогая Анюта. Я тебя люблю. iv List of publications. Papers: 1. D. I. Nikitichev , Y. Ding, L. Drzewietzki, S.Breuer, W. Elsaβer, M. Ruiz, M. Tran, Y.Robert, M. Krakowski, M. Rossetti, P. Bardella, T. Xu, I. Montrosset, I. Krestnikov, D. Livshits, M. A. Cataluna and E. U. Rafailov, “High peak power and sub-picosecond Fourier-limited pulse generation from passively mode-locked monolithic two-section gain-guided tapered InGaAs quantum-dot lasers” accepted Laser Physics Journal, Nov 2011 2. Y. Ding, M. A. Cataluna, D. I. Nikitichev , I. Krestnikov, D. Livshits,and E. U. Rafailov “Broad repetition-rate continuously tunable quantum-dot external-cavity passively mode-locked laser with extremely narrow RF linewidth” accepted for publication in Applied Physics Express , 4(6), 062703, 2011 3. R. Leyman, D. I. Nikitichev , N. Bazieva, M. A. Cataluna, E. U. Rafailov, "Multimodal spectral control of a quantum-dot diode laser for THz difference frequency generation," Applied Physics Letters, 99, 171107, 2011 4. Maria Ana Cataluna, Ying Ding, Daniil I. Nikitichev, Ksenia A. Fedorova, and Edik U. Rafailov , “ High-Power Versatile Picosecond Pulse Generation from Mode-Locked Quantum-Dot Laser Diodes” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 17(5): p. 1302-1310, 2011. 5. D. I. Nikitichev , Y. Ding, M. Ruiz, M. Calligaro, N. Michel, M. Krakowski, I. Krestnikov, D. Livshits, M. A. Cataluna and E. U. Rafailov, "High-power passively mode- locked tapered InGaAs/GaAs quantum-dot lasers," Applied Physics B, vol. 103, 3, 609- 613, 2011 6. Y. Ding, Nikitichev D.I , I. Krestnikov, D. Livshits, M. A. Cataluna and E. U. Rafailov ., "Quantum-dot external-cavity passively modelocked laser with high peak power and pulse energy," Electronics Letters, vol. 46, pp. 1516-1518, 2010 7. M. A. Cataluna, D. I. Nikitichev , S. Mikroulis, H. Simos, C. Simos, C. Mesaritakis, D. Syvridis, I. Krestnikov, D. Livshits, E. U. Rafailov: “Dual-wavelength mode-locked quantum-dot laser, via ground and excited state transitions: experimental and theoretical investigation” Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 12, pp. 12832-12838, 2010 v Conferences: Invited talks: 1. M. A. Cataluna, Y. Ding, D. I. Nikitichev , E. U. Rafailov,” High-power ultrafast quantum-dot edge-emitting lasers”, 2nd EOS Topical Meeting on Lasers 2011(ETML’11) , paper 4574, Capri, Italy 2. M. A. Cataluna, Y. Ding, D.I. Nikitichev , K. Fedorova and E. U. Rafailov,”Ultrafast InAs/GaAs quantum-dot laser diodes: unlocking spectral and temporal versatility”, European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) spring meeting 2011 , Symposium G, paper 21, Nice, France 3. Nikitichev D. I. ,“Record power from mode-locked two-section gain-guided tapered quantum-dot lasers”, Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA) Annual General Meeting 2011, St. Andrews, UK http://www.supa.ac.uk/Graduate_School/AGM/2011/students_presentation Other Conferences: 1. R. Aviles-Espinosa, Y. Ding, M. A. Cataluna, D. Nikitichev , P. Loza-Alvarez and E. Rafailov, “Ultrashort-pulsed chip-sized lasers for two-photon excited fluorescence imaging”, submitted The Focus on Microscopy 2012 2. D. I. Nikitichev , K.A. Fedorova, Y. Ding, A. Alhazime, A. Able, W. Kaenders, I. Krestnikov, D. Livshits, E. U. Rafailov, “Broadly tunable picosecond pulses quantum-dot mode-locked laser”, submitted CLEO 2012 3. Y. Ding, A. Alhazime, D. Nikitichev , K. Fedorova, M. Ruiz, M. Tran, Y. Robert, A. Kapsalis, H. Simos, C. Mesaritakis, T. Xu, P. Bardella, M. Rossetti, I. Krestnikov, D. Livshits, I. Montrosset, D. Syvridis, M. A. Cataluna, M. Krakowski, and E. Rafailov, “Tunable Master-Oscillator Power-Amplifier Using All Chirped Quantum-Dot Structures”, submitted CLEO 2012 4. Y. Ding, A. Alhazime, D. Nikitichev , K. Fedorova, M. Ruiz, M. Tran, Y. Robert, A.