Optical feedback effects on terahertz quantum cascade lasers: modelling and applications

Aleksandar D. Rakić; Yah Leng Lim; Thomas Taimre; Gary Agnew; Xiaoqiong Qi; Karl Bertling; She Han; Stephen J. Wilson; Iman Kundu; Andrew Grier; Zoran Ikonić; Alexander Valavanis; Aleksandar Demić; James Keeley; Lianhe H. Li; Edmund H. Linfield; A. Giles Davies; Paul Harrison; Blake Ferguson; Graeme Walker; Tarl Prow; Dragan Indjin; H. Peter Soyer

doi:10.1117/12.2250621

8 December 2016 Optical feedback effects on terahertz quantum cascade lasers: modelling and applications

Aleksandar D. Rakić, Yah Leng Lim, Thomas Taimre, Gary Agnew, Xiaoqiong Qi, Karl Bertling, She Han, Stephen J. Wilson, Iman Kundu, Andrew Grier, Zoran Ikonić, Alexander Valavanis, Aleksandar Demić, James Keeley, Lianhe H. Li, Edmund H. Linfield, A. Giles Davies, Paul Harrison, Blake Ferguson, Graeme Walker, Tarl Prow, Dragan Indjin, H. Peter Soyer

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Proceedings Volume 10030, Infrared, Millimeter-Wave, and Terahertz Technologies IV; 1003016 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2250621
Event: SPIE/COS Photonics Asia, 2016, Beijing, China

Abstract

Terahertz (THz) quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are compact sources of radiation in the 1–5 THz range with significant potential for applications in sensing and imaging. Laser feedback interferometry (LFI) with THz QCLs is a technique utilizing the sensitivity of the QCL to the radiation reflected back into the laser cavity from an external target. We will discuss modelling techniques and explore the applications of LFI in biological tissue imaging and will show that the confocal nature of the QCL in LFI systems, with their innate capacity for depth sectioning, makes them suitable for skin diagnostics with the well-known advantages of more conventional confocal microscopes. A demonstration of discrimination of neoplasia from healthy tissue using a THz, LFI-based system in the context of melanoma is presented using a transgenic mouse model.

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Aleksandar D. Rakić, Yah Leng Lim, Thomas Taimre, Gary Agnew, Xiaoqiong Qi, Karl Bertling, She Han, Stephen J. Wilson, Iman Kundu, Andrew Grier, Zoran Ikonić, Alexander Valavanis, Aleksandar Demić, James Keeley, Lianhe H. Li, Edmund H. Linfield, A. Giles Davies, Paul Harrison, Blake Ferguson, Graeme Walker, Tarl Prow, Dragan Indjin, and H. Peter Soyer "Optical feedback effects on terahertz quantum cascade lasers: modelling and applications", Proc. SPIE 10030, Infrared, Millimeter-Wave, and Terahertz Technologies IV, 1003016 (8 December 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2250621

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