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Characterizing Far-infrared Laser Emissions and the Measurement of Their Frequencies
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Generation of tunable far-infrared radiation with a quantum cascade laser
Optics Letters
|November 17, 2007
Abstract:
We demonstrate the generation of cw tunable far-infrared radiation by mixing a quantum cascade laser and a CO>(2) laser in a W-Ni metal-insulator-metal diode. The first known spectroscopic application to the recording of an H(79)Br transition near 4.47 THz is reported.

