Multi-Wavelength Terahertz Parametric Generator Using a Seed Laser Based on Four-Wave Mixing

Autor: Sota Mine, Kodo Kawase, Kosuke Murate
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Photonics, Vol 9, Iss 4, p 258 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2304-6732
DOI: 10.3390/photonics9040258
Popis: In this study, we developed a multi-wavelength terahertz-wave parametric generator that operates with only one injection seeding laser. Tunable lasers used as an injection seeder must be single-frequency oscillators, and conventional multi-wavelength terahertz-wave parametric generator requires basically the same number of lasers as the number of wavelengths. In order to solve this problem, we developed a new external cavity semiconductor laser that incorporates a DMD in its wavelength-selective mechanism. In this process, stable multi-wavelength oscillation from a single laser was made possible by efficiently causing four-wave mixing. This seed laser can be applied to practical real-time terahertz spectroscopy by arbitrarily switching the desired wavelength to be generated and the interval between multiple wavelengths.
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