The interband cascade laser

JR Meyer, WW Bewley, CL Canedy, CS Kim, M Kim… - Photonics, 2020 - mdpi.com
We review the history, development, design principles, experimental operating
characteristics, and specialized architectures of interband cascade lasers for the mid-wave …

Mid-infrared tunable laser-based broadband fingerprint absorption spectroscopy for trace gas sensing: a review

Z Du, S Zhang, J Li, N Gao, K Tong - Applied sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
The vast majority of gaseous chemical substances exhibit fundamental rovibrational
absorption bands in the mid-infrared spectral region (2.5–25 μm), and the absorption of light …

Theory of frequency-modulated combs in lasers with spatial hole burning, dispersion, and Kerr nonlinearity

N Opačak, B Schwarz - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
Frequency-modulated (FM) frequency combs constitute an exciting alternative to generate
equidistant spectra. The full set of Maxwell-Bloch equations is reduced to a single master …

Dual-comb photothermal spectroscopy

Q Wang, Z Wang, H Zhang, S Jiang, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Dual-comb spectroscopy (DCS) has revolutionized optical spectroscopy by providing
broadband spectral measurements with unprecedented resolution and fast response …

On-chip optical comb sources

A Hermans, K Van Gasse, B Kuyken - APL Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
On-chip integration of optical comb sources is crucial in enabling their widespread use.
Integrated photonic devices that can be mass-manufactured in semiconductor processing …

Monolithic frequency comb platform based on interband cascade lasers and detectors

B Schwarz, J Hillbrand, M Beiser, AM Andrews… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
New insights into the laser dynamics of interband cascade lasers reveal the possibility to
generate frequency-modulated combs by utilizing their inherent gain nonlinearity. The …

Broadband molecular spectroscopy with optical frequency combs

ML Weichman, PB Changala, J Ye, Z Chen… - Journal of molecular …, 2019 - Elsevier
Over the past dozen years, optical frequency combs have evolved into valuable tools for
broadband molecular spectroscopy. They have already enabled remarkable advances for …

Computational coherent averaging for free-running dual-comb spectroscopy

LA Sterczewski, J Westberg, G Wysocki - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Dual-comb spectroscopy is a rapidly develo** spectroscopic technique that does not
require any opto-mechanical moving parts and enables broadband and high-resolution …

[HTML][HTML] High-resolution frequency-comb spectroscopy with electro-optic sampling and instantaneous octave-wide coverage across mid-IR to THz at a video rate

D Konnov, A Muraviev, S Vasilyev, K Vodopyanov - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Ultrabroadband electro-optic sampling using few-optical-cycle probing pulses is a sensitive
technique to detect electric field amplitudes with a high dynamic range and up to near …

Frequency comb ptychoscopy

DJ Benirschke, N Han, D Burghoff - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Multiheterodyne techniques using frequency combs—radiation sources whose lines are
perfectly evenly-spaced—have revolutionized science. By beating sources with the many …