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ArticleLight, science & applications2026

Effective Rabi frequency in ultrafast semiconductor lasers: self-starting harmonic frequency combs.

Carlo Silvestri, Franco Prati, Massimo Brambilla, Mariangela Gioannini, Lorenzo Luigi Columbo

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Article in Light, science & applications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Reconfigurable Terahertz Multi-Harmonic Dual-Combs.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2026
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5 authors.

Carlo SilvestriInstitute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS), School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9564-708X
Franco PratiDipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia, Università dell'Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, 22100, Como, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3930-0564
Massimo BrambillaDipartimento Interateneo di Fisica, Politecnico di Bari and CNR-IFN, UOS Bari, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0985-8965
Mariangela GioanniniDipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Politecnico di Torino, 10129, Torino, Italy.
Lorenzo Luigi ColumboDipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Politecnico di Torino, 10129, Torino, Italy. lorenzo.columbo@polito.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6566-9763

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Optical frequency combs have become a key research topic in optics and photonics. A peculiar comb state is the Harmonic Frequency Comb (HFC), where optical lines are spaced by integer multiples of the cavity's free spectral range. The spontaneous formation of HFCs has recently been observed in semiconductor lasers with fast gain recovery, such as Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCLs), although the underlying physical mechanism remains unclear. In this work, we provide a physical interpretation for the formation of HFCs in QCLs, based on a resonance phenomenon between an effective Rabi frequency and a mode of the laser cavity. This is corroborated by the results of the numerical integration of the Effective Semiconductor Maxwell-Bloch Equations (ESMBEs) used to describe the multimode laser dynamics, as well as by the linear stability analysis of the continuous-wave emission.

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