Active Stabilization of Terahertz Semiconductor Dual‐Comb Laser Sources Employing a Phase Locking Technique

Y Zhao, Z Li, K Zhou, X Liao, W Guan… - Laser & Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Dual‐comb sources with equally spaced and low phase noise frequency lines are of great
importance for high resolution spectroscopy and metrology. In the terahertz frequency range …

6.2-GHz modulated terahertz light detection using fast terahertz quantum well photodetectors

H Li, WJ Wan, ZY Tan, ZL Fu, HX Wang, T Zhou… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
The fast detection of terahertz radiation is of great importance for various applications such
as fast imaging, high speed communications, and spectroscopy. Most commercial products …

Terahertz quantum cascade laser frequency combs with optical feedback

X Liao, X Wang, K Zhou, W Guan, Z Li, X Ma… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Optical feedback exists in most laser configurations and strongly affects laser performances
depending on the feedback strength, length, and phase. In this paper, we investigate the …

Homogeneous spectral broadening of pulsed terahertz quantum cascade lasers by radio frequency modulation

WJ Wan, H Li, JC Cao - Optics Express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The authors present an experimental investigation of radio frequency modulation on pulsed
terahertz quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) emitting around 4.3 THz. The QCL chip used in …

Achieving comb formation over the entire lasing range of quantum cascade lasers

Y Yang, D Burghoff, J Reno, Q Hu - Optics Letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Frequency combs based on quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are finding promising
applications in high-speed broadband spectroscopy in the terahertz regime, where many …

Ridge width effect on comb operation in terahertz quantum cascade lasers

K Zhou, H Li, WJ Wan, ZP Li, XY Liao… - Applied Physics Letters, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We systematically investigate the laser ridge width effect on comb operation of single
plasmon waveguide quantum cascade lasers emitting around 4.2 THz. The total group …

On-chip dual-comb source based on terahertz quantum cascade lasers under microwave double injection

Z Li, W Wan, K Zhou, X Liao, S Yang, Z Fu, JC Cao… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
High-power and broadband dual-comb sources in the terahertz frequency regime are much
in demand for fast and high-resolution spectroscopies. The terahertz quantum cascade laser …

Research progress in terahertz quantum-cascade lasers and quantum-well photodetectors

ZY Tan, WJ Wan, JC Cao - Chinese Physics B, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
As semiconductor devices, the terahertz quantum-cascade laser is a coherent source based
on intersubband transitions of unipolar carriers while the terahertz quantum-well …

Stabilized Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser Dual-Comb Sources with a Hybrid Locking

Y Zhao, Z Li, X Ma, K Zhou, W Guan, C Wang… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Frequency combs show various application potentials in high precision spectroscopy,
imaging, communications, and so on. In the terahertz (THz) region, semiconductor-based …

Relative phase locking of a terahertz laser system configured with a frequency comb and a single-mode laser

W Guan, Z Li, S Wu, H Liu, X Ma… - Advanced …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Stable operation is one of the most important requirements for a laser source for high-
precision applications. Many efforts have been made to improve the stability of lasers by …