• DocumentCode
    153482
  • Title

    Narrow bandwidth injection seeding of a THz quantum cascade laser

  • Author

    Nong, H. ; Pal, Shovon ; Markmann, S. ; Hekmat, N. ; Mohandas, R.A. ; Dean, P. ; Li, Luoqing ; Linfield, Edmund H. ; Davies, A. Giles ; Wieck, A.D. ; Jukam, N.

  • Author_Institution
    Arbeitsgruppe Terahertz Spectrosc. und Technol., Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Bochum, Germany
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    14-19 Sept. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Narrowband THz pulses generated from a periodically poled lithium niobate crystal are used to injection seed a terahertz quantum cascade laser. The phase locked spectral emission from the quantum cascade laser is significantly influenced by the spectrum of the seed pulse.
  • Keywords
    laser mode locking; lithium compounds; microwave photonics; optical pulse generation; quantum cascade lasers; terahertz wave generation; LiNbO3; THz quantum cascade laser; narrow THz pulse generation; narrow bandwidth injection seeding; periodically poled lithium niobate crystal; phase locked spectral emission; seed pulse spectrum; Cavity resonators; Crystals; Lithium niobate; Narrowband; Quantum cascade lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2014 39th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Tucson, AZ
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2014.6956478
  • Filename
    6956478