Frequency locking of single-mode 3.5-THz quantum cascade lasers using a gas cell

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Ren, Y ^a,b,c   Hovenier, J N ^a   Cui, M ^d   Hayton, D J ^d   Gao, J R ^a,d   Klapwijk, T M ^a   Shi, S C ^b   Kao, T Y ^e   Hu, Q ^e   Reno, J L ^f  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^e Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^f SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK; FREQUENCY LOCKING; FREQUENCY NOISE; GAS CELL; LINEWIDTH REDUCTION; MOLECULAR ABSORPTION LINES; PROPORTIONAL INTEGRAL DERIVATIVE CONTROLLERS; SINGLE MODE; TEMPERATURE TUNING; THIRD-ORDER; THZ QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

LINEWIDTH; METHANOL; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; SPECTRAL DENSITY;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 84856423342     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3679620     Document Type: Article

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