Phase-locking of a 2.7-THz quantum cascade laser to a mode-locked erbium-doped fibre laser

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 636-640

  Barbieri, Stefano ^a   Gellie, Pierre ^a   Santarelli, Giorgio ^b   Ding, Lu ^a   Maineult, Wilfried ^a   Sirtori, Carlo ^a   Colombelli, Raffaele ^c   Beere, Harvey ^d   Ritchie, David ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTIC EFFECTS; ERBIUM-DOPED FIBRE LASERS; OPTICAL METROLOGY; QUANTUM CASCADES; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; SUPERCONDUCTING BOLOMETERS; THZ QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

BANDWIDTH; ERBIUM; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 77956284219     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.125     Document Type: Article

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