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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2014 39th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tucson, AZ
DOI :
10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2014.6956478
