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
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