Self‐induced phase locking of terahertz frequency combs in a phase‐sensitive hyperspectral near‐field nanoscope

V Pistore, EAA Pogna, L Viti, L Li, AG Davies… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Chip‐scale, electrically‐pumped terahertz (THz) frequency‐combs (FCs) rely on nonlinear
four‐wave‐mixing processes, and have a nontrivial phase relationship between the evenly …

Toward new frontiers for terahertz quantum cascade laser frequency combs

MS Vitiello, L Consolino, M Inguscio, P De Natale - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
Broadband, quantum-engineered, quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are the most powerful
chip-scale sources of optical frequency combs (FCs) across the mid-infrared and the …

Terahertz frequency combs exploiting an on-chip, solution-processed, graphene-quantum cascade laser coupled-cavity

FP Mezzapesa, K Garrasi, J Schmidt, L Salemi… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The ability to engineer quantum-cascade-lasers (QCLs) with ultrabroad gain spectra, and
with a full compensation of the group velocity dispersion, at terahertz (THz) frequencies, is …

Retrieval of phase relation and emission profile of quantum cascade laser frequency combs

F Cappelli, L Consolino, G Campo, I Galli, D Mazzotti… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Recently, the field of optical frequency combs experienced a major development of new
sources. They are generally much smaller in size (on the scale of millimetres) and can …

[HTML][HTML] On-chip dual-comb based on quantum cascade laser frequency combs

G Villares, J Wolf, D Kazakov, MJ Süess, A Hugi… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Dual-comb spectroscopy is emerging as an appealing application of mid-infrared frequency
combs for high-resolution molecular spectroscopy, as it leverages on the unique coherence …

Tunable and compact dispersion compensation of broadband THz quantum cascade laser frequency combs

FP Mezzapesa, V Pistore, K Garrasi, L Li, AG Davies… - Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Miniaturized frequency combs (FCs) can be self-generated at terahertz (THz) frequencies
through four-wave mixing in the cavity of a quantum cascade laser (QCL). To date, however …

Terahertz Sources Based on Metrological‐Grade Frequency Combs

E Riccardi, V Pistore, L Consolino… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Broadband metrological‐grade frequency comb (FC) synthesizers with a rich number of
phase locked modes are the ideal sources for quantum sensing and quantum metrology. At …

Direct observation of terahertz frequency comb generation in difference-frequency quantum cascade lasers

L Consolino, M Nafa, M De Regis, F Cappelli… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Terahertz quantum cascade laser sources based on intra-cavity difference frequency
generation from mid-IR devices are an important asset for applications in rotational …

Electro-optic THz dual-comb architecture for high-resolution, absolute spectroscopy

B Jerez, F Walla, A Betancur, P Martín-Mateos… - Optics Letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
An absolute-frequency terahertz (THz) dual-frequency comb spectrometer based on electro-
optic modulators for tunable, high-resolution, and real-time rapid acquisition is presented …

Towards on-chip self-referenced frequency-comb sources based on semiconductor mode-locked lasers

M Malinowski, R Bustos-Ramirez, JE Tremblay… - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Miniaturization of frequency-comb sources could open a host of potential applications in
spectroscopy, biomedical monitoring, astronomy, microwave signal generation, and …