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TY - JOUR
T1 - Amplitude stabilization and active control of a terahertz quantum cascade laser with a graphene loaded split-ring-resonator array
AU - Wei, Binbin
AU - Kindness, Stephen
AU - Almond, Nikita
AU - Wallis, Robert
AU - Wu, Y.
AU - Ren, Yuan
AU - Shi, S. C.
AU - Braeuninger-Weimer, Philipp
AU - Hofmann, Stephan
AU - Beere, Harvey E.
AU - Ritchie, David
AU - Degl'Innocenti, Riccardo
N1 - Copyright 2018 American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Applied Physics Letters, 112, (20) 2018 and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5027687 This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics.
PY - 2018/5/15
Y1 - 2018/5/15
N2 - We demonstrate the amplitude stabilization of a 2.85 THz quantum cascade laser with a graphene loaded split-ring-resonator array, acting as an external amplitude modulator. The transmittance of the modulator can be actively changed by modifying the graphene conductivity via electrostatic back-gating. The modulator operates at room temperature and is capable of actively modulating the quantum cascade laser power level and thus stabilizing the power output via a proportional-integral-derivative feedback control loop. The stability was enhanced by more than 10 times through actively tuning the modulation. Furthermore, this approach can be used to externally control the laser power with a high level of stability
AB - We demonstrate the amplitude stabilization of a 2.85 THz quantum cascade laser with a graphene loaded split-ring-resonator array, acting as an external amplitude modulator. The transmittance of the modulator can be actively changed by modifying the graphene conductivity via electrostatic back-gating. The modulator operates at room temperature and is capable of actively modulating the quantum cascade laser power level and thus stabilizing the power output via a proportional-integral-derivative feedback control loop. The stability was enhanced by more than 10 times through actively tuning the modulation. Furthermore, this approach can be used to externally control the laser power with a high level of stability
U2 - 10.1063/1.5027687
DO - 10.1063/1.5027687
M3 - Journal article
VL - 112
JO - Applied Physics Letters
JF - Applied Physics Letters
SN - 0003-6951
IS - 20
M1 - 201102
ER -