Frequency combs in quantum cascade lasers: An overview of modeling and experiments

C Silvestri, X Qi, T Taimre, K Bertling, AD Rakić - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Over the past decade, the demonstration of frequency combs has been reported in a wide
range of quantum cascade lasers. These combs have huge potential in applications …

Gas-phase broadband spectroscopy using active sources: progress, status, and applications

KC Cossel, EM Waxman, IA Finneran… - Journal of the Optical …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Broadband spectroscopy is an invaluable tool for measuring multiple gas-phase species
simultaneously. In this work we review basic techniques, implementations, and current …

The 2017 terahertz science and technology roadmap

SS Dhillon, MS Vitiello, EH Linfield… - Journal of Physics D …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Science and technologies based on terahertz frequency electromagnetic radiation (100 GHz–
30 THz) have developed rapidly over the last 30 years. For most of the 20th Century …

Terahertz pulse shaping using diffractive surfaces

M Veli, D Mengu, NT Yardimci, Y Luo, J Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent advances in deep learning have been providing non-intuitive solutions to various
inverse problems in optics. At the intersection of machine learning and optics, diffractive …

Dual-comb spectroscopy based on quantum-cascade-laser frequency combs

G Villares, A Hugi, S Blaser, J Faist - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Dual-comb spectroscopy performed in the mid-infrared—where molecules have their
strongest rotovibrational absorption lines—offers the promise of high spectral resolution …

Mid-infrared frequency comb based on a quantum cascade laser

A Hugi, G Villares, S Blaser, HC Liu, J Faist - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs act as rulers in the frequency domain and have opened new
avenues in many fields such as fundamental time metrology, spectroscopy and frequency …

Terahertz laser frequency combs

D Burghoff, TY Kao, N Han, CWI Chan, X Cai… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Terahertz light can be used to identify numerous complex molecules, but has traditionally
remained unexploited due to the lack of powerful broadband sources. Pulsed lasers can be …

Octave-spanning semiconductor laser

M Rösch, G Scalari, M Beck, J Faist - Nature Photonics, 2015 - nature.com
We present a semiconductor injection laser operating in continuous wave with emission
covering more than one octave in frequency and displaying homogeneous power …

Quantum cascade laser frequency combs

J Faist, G Villares, G Scalari, M Rösch, C Bonzon… - …, 2016 - degruyter.com
It was recently demonstrated that broadband quantum cascade lasers can operate as
frequency combs. As such, they operate under direct electrical pumping at both mid-infrared …

Short pulse generation from a graphene-coupled passively mode-locked terahertz laser

E Riccardi, V Pistore, S Kang, L Seitner, A De Vetter… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The generation of stable trains of ultrashort (femtosecond to picosecond), terahertz-
frequency radiation pulses with large instantaneous intensities is an underlying requirement …