Coherent Cherenkov radiation and laser oscillation in a photonic crystal

T. Denis; M.W. van Dijk; J.H.H. Lee; Reinier  van der Meer; A. Strooisma; Petrus J.M. van der Slot; Willem L. Vos; Klaus J. Boller

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.94.053852

Coherent Cherenkov radiation and laser oscillation in a photonic crystal

T. Denis, M.W. van Dijk, J.H.H. Lee, Reinier van der Meer, A. Strooisma, Petrus J.M. van der Slot, Willem L. Vos, Klaus J. Boller

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We demonstrate that photonic crystals can be used to generate powerful and highly coherent Cherenkov radiation that is excited by the injection of a beam of free electrons. Using theoretical and numerical investigations we present the startup dynamics and coherence properties of such a laser, in which gain is provided by matching the optical phase velocity in the photonic crystal to the velocity of the electron beam. The operating frequency can be varied by changing the electron beam energy and scaled to different ranges by varying the lattice constant of the photonic crystal.

Original language	English
Article number	053852
Pages (from-to)	053852-
Journal	Physical review A : atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum information
Volume	94
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.94.053852
Publication status	Published - 28 Nov 2016

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