• DocumentCode
    689528
  • Title

    Room-temperature quantum cascade laser sources of terahertz radiation

  • Author

    Belkin, Mikhail A. ; Vijayraghavan, Karun ; Jiang, Aimin ; Demmerle, F. ; Boehm, G. ; Amann, Markus C.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    The development of room-temperature mass-producible 1-5 terahertz sources based on efficient intra-cavity frequency mixing in mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers will be discussed. Best devices provide over 0.1mW of terahertz output with over 0.4mW/W2 conversion efficiency.
  • Keywords
    infrared sources; laser cavity resonators; optical frequency conversion; quantum cascade lasers; terahertz wave spectra; intracavity frequency mixing; midinfrared quantum cascade laser sources; optical frequency conversion efficiency; room temperature; temperature 293 K to 298 K; terahertz radiation sources; Diode lasers; Educational institutions; Optical mixing; Performance evaluation; Quantum cascade lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6833914