Longitudinal computer-generated holograms for digital frequency control in electronically tunable terahertz lasers

Subhasish Chakraborty; Owen P. Marshall; Md Khairuzzaman; Chen Wei Hsin; Harvey E. Beere; David A. Ritchie

doi:10.1063/1.4753814

Longitudinal computer-generated holograms for digital frequency control in electronically tunable terahertz lasers

Subhasish Chakraborty^* (Lead)
, Owen P. Marshall
, Md Khairuzzaman
, Chen Wei Hsin
, Harvey E. Beere
, David A. Ritchie

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Longitudinal computer-generated holograms (LCGHs) can be used for the inverse design of aperiodic photonic lattices for customizable frequency control of light propagation. A one-dimensional binary LCGH, designed to harness the coarse gain tuning of a terahertz (THz) quantum cascade laser (QCL) operating at around 2.9 THz, is patterned directly by ion milling into the surface plasmon-based waveguides of pre-characterized QCLs. The initial multi-mode emission is suppressed in favour of electronically controlled, discretely tunable single-mode lasing spanning over 160 GHz. Side-mode suppression ratios of over 20 dB are also demonstrated in these tunable THz LCGH-QCLs. © 2012 American Institute of Physics.

Original language	English
Article number	121103
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	101
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4753814
Publication status	Published - 17 Sept 2012

Keywords

Tunable THz QCL
aperiodic lattice
DFB
hologram
PBG

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Longitudinal computer-generated holograms for digital frequency control in electronically tunable terahertz lasers

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