Title : 
Terahertz quantum cascade laser sources based on Cherenkov intra-cavity difference-frequency generation
         
        
            Author : 
Vijayraghavan, Karun ; Vizbaras, Augustinas ; Jang, Min ; Grasse, Christian ; Boehm, Gerhard ; Amann, Markus C. ; Belkin, Mikhail A.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Directional room-temperature terahertz emission is observed with a peak power of 16μW and a maximum conversion efficiency of approximately 600μW/W2.
         
        
            Keywords : 
laser cavity resonators; microwave photonics; optical frequency conversion; quantum cascade lasers; Cherenkov intracavity difference-frequency generation; directional room-temperature terahertz emission; maximum conversion efficiency; peak power; power 16 muW; temperature 293 K to 298 K; terahertz quantum cascade laser sources; Frequency conversion; Optical waveguides; Power generation; Power measurement; Quantum cascade lasers; Substrates; Waveguide lasers;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Burlingame, CA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4577-0731-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358732