Heterodyne gas cell measurements at 2.9 THz using a quantum cascade laser as local oscillator

High-resolution heterodyne spectrometers operating at above 2 THz are crucial for detecting, e.g., the HD line at 2.7 THz and oxygen OI line at 4.7 THz in astronomy. The potential receiver technology is a combination of a hot electron bolometer (HEB) mixer and a THz quantum cascade laser (QCL) local...

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Main Authors: Ren, Y. (Author), Gao, J. R. (Author), Hovenier, J. N. (Author), Higgins, R. (Author), Zhang, W. (Author), Bell, A. (Author), Klein, B. (Author), Klapwijk, T. M. (Author), Shi, S. C. (Author), Kao, Tsung-Yu (Contributor), Kumar, S. (Contributor), Hu, Qing (Contributor), Reno, J. L. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: SPIE, 2011-02-14T14:47:29Z.
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