• DocumentCode
    2236979
  • Title

    Low-loss hollow metallic waveguides efficiently coupled to terahertz micro-ring quantum cascade lasers

  • Author

    Vitiello, Miriam Serena ; Xu, Ji-Hua ; Kumar, Mirgender ; Beltram, Fabio ; Tredicucci, Alessandro ; Mitrofanov, Oleg ; Beere, Harvey E. ; Ritchie, David A.

  • Author_Institution
    CNR - Ist. Naz. di Fis. Appl. Nello Carrara, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate that the azimuthally polarized beam of a micro-ring THz quantum cascade laser can be coupled to hollow metallic waveguides with efficiencies ≥96% and perfectly matched with the TE01 waveguide mode, giving attenuation losses <;3dB/m.
  • Keywords
    light polarisation; millimetre wave lasers; optical waveguides; quantum cascade lasers; azimuthally polarized beam; low-loss hollow metallic waveguides; terahertz micro-ring quantum cascade lasers; Couplings; Hollow waveguides; Laser beams; Optical waveguides; Quantum cascade lasers; Waveguide lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5950492
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2236979