Coherent three-dimensional terahertz imaging through self-mixing in a quantum cascade laser

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 18, 2013, Pages

  Dean, Paul ^a   Valavanis, Alex ^a   Keeley, James ^a   Bertling, Karl ^b   Leng Lim, Yah ^b   Alhathlool, Raed ^a   Chowdhury, Siddhant ^a   Taimre, Thomas ^b   Li, Lianhe H ^a   Indjin, Dragan ^a   Wilson, Stephen J ^b   Rakić, Aleksandar D ^b   Linfield, Edmund H ^a   Giles Davies, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY STABILIZATION; PHASE PARAMETERS; REFLECTED FIELDS; SELF-MIXING EFFECTS; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; VOLTAGE WAVEFORMS;

LASER MIRRORS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

MIXING;

EID: 84889656043     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4827886     Document Type: Article

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