Phase locking of a 1.5 Terahertz quantum cascade laser and use as a local oscillator in a heterodyne HEB receiver

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1159-1168

  Rabanus, D ^a,b   Graf, U U ^c   Philipp, M ^c   Ricken, O ^c   Stutzki, J ^c   Vowinkel, B ^c   Wiedner, M C ^c   Walther, C ^d   Fischer, M ^d   Faist, J ^d  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^b KOSMA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; HETERODYNING; LOCKS (FASTENERS); PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; TERAHERTZ WAVES; TUNING;

FREQUENCY FLUCTUATION; HOT ELECTRON BOLOMETER; INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCIES; PHASE LOCK LOOP (PLL); RECEIVER NOISE TEMPERATURES; RESOLUTION BANDWIDTH; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TERAHERTZ QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 59749097902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.001159     Document Type: Article

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