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Room temperature terahertz semiconductor frequency comb

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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -

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NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10395-7

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  1. National Science Foundation [ECCS-1505409, ECCS-1607838]

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A terahertz (THz) frequency comb capable of high-resolution measurement will significantly advance THz technology application in spectroscopy, metrology and sensing. The recently developed cryogenic-cooled THz quantum cascade laser (QCL) comb has exhibited great potentials with high power and broadband spectrum. Here, we report a room temperature THz harmonic frequency comb in 2.2 to 3.3 THz based on difference-frequency generation from a mid-IR QCL. The THz comb is intracavity generated via down-converting a mid-IR comb with an integrated mid-IR single mode based on distributed-feedback grating without using external optical elements. The grating Bragg wavelength is largely detuned from the gain peak to suppress the grating dispersion and support the comb operation in the high gain spectral range. Multiheterodyne spectroscopy with multiple equally spaced lines by beating it with a reference Fabry-Perot comb confirms the THz comb operation. This type of THz comb will find applications to room temperature chip-based THz spectroscopy.

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