• DocumentCode
    733359
  • Title

    Selection of longitudinal modes in a terahertz quantum cascade laser via narrow-band injection seeding

  • Author

    Hanond Nong ; Pal, Shovon ; Markmann, Sergej ; Hekmat, Negar ; Mohandas, Reshma A. ; Dean, Paul ; Lianhe Li ; Linfield, Edmund H. ; Davis, A. Giles ; Wieck, Andreas D. ; Jukam, Nathan

  • Author_Institution
    Arbeitsgruppe Terahertz-Spektrosk. und Technol., Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Bochum, Germany
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A terahertz quantum cascade laser is injection seeded with narrow-band seed pulses generated from a periodically poled lithium niobate crystal. The spectral emission of the quantum cascade laser is controlled by the seed spectra.
  • Keywords
    laser mode locking; lithium compounds; microwave photonics; optical pulse generation; quantum cascade lasers; terahertz wave generation; LiNbO3; longitudinal mode selection; narrow-band injection seeding; narrow-band seed pulse generation; periodically poled lithium niobate crystal; seed spectra; spectral emission; terahertz quantum cascade laser; Crystals; Electric fields; Electrooptical waveguides; Lithium niobate; Quantum cascade lasers; Ultrafast electronics; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183797