• DocumentCode
    3862908
  • Title

    Phase locking of a 2.5 THz quantum cascade laser to a microwave reference using THz Schottky mixer

  • Author

    B. T. Bulcha;J. L. Hesler;A. Valavanis;V. Drakinskiy;J. Stake;R. Dong;J. X. Zhu;P. Dean;L. H. Li;A. G. Davies;E. H. Linfield;N. S. Barker

  • Author_Institution
    Virginia Diodes, Inc., Charlottesville, VA, 22902, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    The frequency of a 2.5 THz QCL are stabilized to sub-hertz accuracy by phase-locking to a stable 100 MHz microwave reference, using a 2.3-3.2 THz room temperature Schottky diode based harmonic mixer. The down-converted phase locked beat note is stable over a long term test.
  • Keywords
    "Quantum cascade lasers","Mixers","Harmonic analysis","Microwave oscillators","Bandwidth","Microwave circuits","Masers"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2015 40th International Conference on
  • ISSN
    2162-2027
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2162-2035
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2015.7327689
  • Filename
    7327689
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3862908