title: Mitigating heat dissipation in Raman lasers using coherent anti-stokes Raman scattering.
abstract: We present a novel technique that intrinsically mitigates the quantum-defect heating in Raman lasers. The basic principle of this so-called "coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS)-based heat mitigation" is to suppress the phonon creation in the Raman medium by increasing the number of out-coupled anti-Stokes photons with respect to the number of out-coupled Stokes photons. We demonstrate with the aid of numerical simulations that for a hydrogen and a silicon Raman laser, CARS-based heat mitigation efficiencies of at least 30% and 35%, respectively, can be obtained.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Physics and Photonics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Vermeulen
authors.forename: Christof
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Debaes
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Muys
authors.forename: Hugo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Thienpont