Semiconductor-based terahertz frequency combs

Hua Li

doi:10.1088/1674-4926/40/5/050402

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Semiconductor-based terahertz frequency combs

Hua Li^{1, 2,}

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Corresponding author: H Li, hua.li@mail.sim.ac.cn

DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/40/5/050402

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Fig. 1. (Color online) Frequency comb and its applications in spectroscopy and nonlinear dynamics of materials. f_CEO and f_rep denote the carrier envelope offset frequency and repetition frequency of a frequency comb, respectively. f_b1and f_b2are the two repetition frequencies of two combs and the difference between the two is Δf (= f_b2 – f_b1) which is the line spacing of the down-converted dual-comb spectrum.

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[1]	Udem T, Holzwarth R, Hansch T W. Optical frequency metrology. Nature, 2002, 416, 233 doi: 10.1038/416233a
[2]	Kippenberg T J, Holzwarth R, Diddams S A. Microresonator-based optical frequency combs. Science, 2011, 332, 555 doi: 10.1126/science.1193968
[3]	Köhler R, Tredicucci A, Beltram F, et al. Terahertz semiconductor-heterostructure laser. Nature, 2002, 417, 156 doi: 10.1038/417156a
[4]	Oustinov D, Jukam N, Rungsawang R, et al. Phase seeding of a terahertz quantum cascade laser. Nat Commun, 2010, 1, 69 doi: 10.1038/ncomms1068
[5]	Barbieri S, Ravaro M, Gellie P, et al. Coherent sampling of active mode-locked terahertz quantum cascade lasers and frequency synthesis. Nat Photonics, 2011, 5, 306 doi: 10.1038/nphoton.2011.49
[6]	Burghoff D, Kao T Y, Han N R, et al. Terahertz laser frequency combs. Nat Photonics, 2014, 8, 462 doi: 10.1038/nphoton.2014.85
[7]	Wang F H, Nong H, Fobbe T, et al. Short Terahertz Pulse generation from a dispersion compensated modelocked semiconductor laser. Laser Photonics Rev, 2017, 11, 1700013 doi: 10.1002/lpor.201700013
[8]	Rösch M, Scalari G, Villares G, et al. On-chip, self-detected terahertz dual-comb source. Appl Phys Lett, 2016, 108, 171104 doi: 10.1063/1.4948358
[9]	Yang Y, Burghoff D, Hayton D J, et al. Terahertz multiheterodyne spectroscopy using laser frequency combs. Optica, 2016, 3, 499 doi: 10.1364/OPTICA.3.000499