Surface-emitting THz sources based on difference-frequency generation in mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7616, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Geiser, M ^a,b   Pflugl C ^a   Belyanin, A ^c   Wang, Q J ^a   Yu, N ^a   Belkin, M A ^a   Edamura, T ^d   Kan, H ^d   Fischer, M ^b   Wittmann, A ^b   Faist, J ^b   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Difference frequency generation; Frequency mixing; Gain competition; Mode competition; Multi wavelength laser; Nonlinear optics; Quantum cascade laser; Surface emission; THz

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION; GAIN COMPETITION; MODE COMPETITION; MULTIWAVELENGTH; QUANTUM CASCADES;

COMPETITION; INFRARED DEVICES; LASERS; LIGHT; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

INFRARED LASERS;

EID: 77951568107     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.845066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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