Highly coherent terahertz wave generation with a dual-frequency Brillouin fiber laser and a 1:55 μm photomixer

Optics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2044-2046

  Ducournau, G ^a   Szriftgiser, P ^b   Akalin, T ^a   Beck, A ^a   Bacquet, D ^b   Peytavit, E ^a   Lampin, J F ^a  

^a INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN FIBER LASER; COHERENT TERAHERTZ WAVES; DUAL FREQUENCY; ELECTRICAL OSCILLATORS; HETERODYNE DETECTION; PHOTOMIXERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; TUNABILITIES; UNI-TRAVELLING CARRIERS;

FIBER LASERS; PHASE NOISE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 79958214338     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.002044     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. A. Maestrini, J. S. Ward, J. J. Gill, C. Lee, B. Thomas, R. H. Lin, G. Chattopadhyay, and I. Mehdi, IEEE Trans. Microwave Theor. Tech. 58, 1925 (2010).
2. B. S. Williams, Nat. Photon. 1, 517 (2007).
3. S. Matsuura and H. Ito, in THz Optoelectronics, K. Sakai, ed. (Springer, 2005), pp. 157-202.
4. O. Momeni and E. Afshari, IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits 46, 583 (2011).
5. B. J. Drouin, F. W. Maiwald, and J. C. Pearson, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 76, 093113 (2005).
6. A. Barkan, F. K. Tittel, D. M. Mittleman, R. Dengler, P. H. Siegel, G. Scalari, L. Ajili, J. Faist, H. E. Beere, E. H. Linfield, A. G. Davies, and D. A. Ritchie, Opt. Lett. 29, 575 (2004).
7. P. Gellie, S. Barbieri, J. F. Lampin, P. Filloux, C. Manquest, C. Sirtori, I. Sagnes, S. P. Khanna, E. H. Linfield, A. G. Davies, H. Beere, and D. Ritchie, Opt. Express 18, 20799 (2010).
8. Q. Qin, B. S. Williams, S. Kumar, J. L. Reno, and Q. Hu, Nat. Photon. 3, 732 (2009).
9. M. Hyodo, M. Tani, S. Matsuura, N. Onodera, and K. Sakai, Electron. Lett. 32, 1589 (1996).
10. J.-F. Cliche, B. Shillue, M. Têtu, and M. Poulin, IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IEEE, 2007), pp. 349-352.
11. G. Pillet, L. Morvan, M. Brunel, F. Bretenaker, D. Dolfi, M. Vallet, J.-P. Huignard, and A. Le Floch, J. Lightwave Technol. 26, 2764 (2008).
12. S. Latkowski, J. Parra-Cetina, R. Maldonado-Basilio, P. Landais, G. Ducournau, A. Beck, E. Peytavit, T. Akalin, and J. F. Lampin, Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, 241106 (2010).
13. L. Stokes, M. Chodorow, and H. Shaw, Opt. Lett. 7, 509 (1982).
14. A. Debut, S. Randoux, and J. Zemmouri, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 18, 556 (2001).
15. S. Molin, G. Baili, M. Alouini, D. Dolfi, and J. P. Huignard, Opt. Lett. 33, 1681 (2008).
16. M. R. Shirazi, S. W. Harun, K. Thambiratnam, M. Biglary, and H. Ahmad, Microw. Opt. Technol. Lett. 49, 2656 (2007).
17. M. Gross, P. Callahan, T. Clark, D. Novak, R. Waterhouse, and M. Dennis, Opt. Express 18, 13321 (2010).
18. J. Geng, S. Staines, and S. Jiang, Opt. Lett. 33, 16 (2008).
19. F. Mihélic, D. Bacquet, J. Zemmouri, and P. Szriftgiser, Opt. Lett. 35, 432 (2010).
20. A. Beck, G. Ducournau, M. Zaknoune, E. Peytavit, T. Akalin, J. F. Lampin, F. Mollot, F. Hindle, C. Yang, and G. Mouret, Electron. Lett. 44, 1320 (2008).
21. Rohde & Schwarz, "R&S FSU spectrumanalyzer specifications, " http://www2.rohde-schwarz.com/file-12580/FSU-dat-sw-en.pdf.
22. F. Hindle, P. Szriftgiser, D. Bacquet, C. Yang, G. Mouret, and R. Bocquet, Microw. Opt. Technol. Lett. 51, 991 (2009).