[HTML][HTML] Sensing and imaging using laser feedback interferometry with quantum cascade lasers

AD Rakić, T Taimre, K Bertling, YL Lim, P Dean… - Applied Physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are high-power sources of coherent radiation in the
midinfrared and terahertz (THz) bands. Laser feedback interferometry (LFI) is one of the …

Coherent imaging using laser feedback interferometry with pulsed-mode terahertz quantum cascade lasers

YL Lim, K Bertling, T Taimre, T Gillespie, C Glenn… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We report a coherent terahertz (THz) imaging system that utilises a quantum cascade laser
(QCL) operating in pulsed-mode as both the source and detector. The realisation of a short …

All-electronic phase-resolved THz microscopy using the self-mixing effect in a semiconductor laser

P Rubino, J Keeley, N Sulollari, AD Burnett… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report all-electronic coherent scattering-type scanning near-field microscopy (s-SNOM)
using a terahertz-frequency quantum cascade laser. By exploiting the coherent self-mixing …

Infinite-period density-matrix model for terahertz-frequency quantum cascade lasers

A Demić, A Grier, Z Ikonić, A Valavanis… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we present a density-matrix model, which considers an infinite quantum
cascade laser (QCL) and models transport via a nearest neighbor approximation. We will …

Frequency tuning range control in pulsed terahertz quantum-cascade lasers: Applications in interferometry

G Agnew, A Grier, T Taimre, K Bertling… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Terahertz quantum cascade-lasers (QCLs) are able to produce higher optical output power
at higher temperatures when operated in pulsed mode. Predicting a laser's behavior under …

Robust density matrix simulation of terahertz quantum cascade lasers

BA Burnett, A Pan, CO Chui… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A common setback to electron transport models for quantum cascade laser active regions is
the inability to freely simulate widely varying designs. One solution to this problem is to use a …

[HTML][HTML] Density matrix superoperator for periodic quantum systems and its application to quantum cascade laser structures

A Demić, Z Ikonić, RW Kelsall, D Ind** - AIP Advances, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
In this work we present a generalization of the Liouvillian superoperator for periodic
quantum systems that can be formulated through partitioned Hamiltonians. We formulate a …

Optical feedback effects on terahertz quantum cascade lasers: modelling and applications

AD Rakić, YL Lim, T Taimre, G Agnew… - Infrared, Millimeter …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Terahertz (THz) quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are compact sources of radiation in the 1–5
THz range with significant potential for applications in sensing and imaging. Laser feedback …

Density matrix modelling of terahertz frequency quantum cascade lasers: Steady state analysis and maxwell-bloch dynamics

A Demic - 2019 - etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
Terahertz frequency quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are state of the art structures that
exploit multiple quantum well (MQW) system to generate emission by radiative transition …

Self-Mixing Signal Characteristics of Complex-Coupled Distributed-Feedback Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers

L Ge, N Yang, J Wang, W Chu, S Duan, Y **e… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Self-mixing interference (SMI) in terahertz quantum cascade lasers (THz QCLs) is one of the
significant approaches for coherent THz imaging and sensing techniques. Here, the output …