Spectroscopic applications and frequency locking of THz photomixing with distributed-Bragg-reflector diode lasers in low-temperature-grown GaAs

Pin Chen; Geoffrey A. Blake; M. C. Gaidis; E. R. Brown; K. A. McIntosh; S. Y. Chou; M. I. Nathan; F. Williamson

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Spectroscopic applications and frequency locking of THz photomixing with distributed-Bragg-reflector diode lasers in low-temperature-grown GaAs

Pin Chen, Geoffrey A. Blake, M. C. Gaidis, E. R. Brown, K. A. McIntosh, S. Y. Chou, M. I. Nathan, F. Williamson

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A compact, narrow-linewidth, tunable source of THz radiation has been developed for spectroscopy and other high-resolution applications. Distributed-Bragg-reflector (DBR) diode lasers at 850 nm are used to pump a low-temperature-grown GaAs photomixer. Resonant optical feedback is employed to stabilize the center frequencies and narrow the linewidths of the DBR lasers. The heterodyne linewidth full-width at half-maximum of two optically locked DBR lasers is 50 kHz on the 20 ms time scale and 2 MHz over 10 s; free-running DBR lasers have linewidths of 40 and 90 MHz on such time scales. This instrument has been used to obtain rotational spectra of acetonitrile (CH₃CN) at 313 GHz. Detection limits of 1×10^-4 Hz^1/2 (noise/total power) have been achieved, with the noise floor dominated by the detector's noise equivalent power.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1601-1603
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	71
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.119845
State	Published - Sep 22 1997
Externally published	Yes

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