Ultra-sensitive heterodyne detection at room temperature in the atmospheric windows

We report room temperature heterodyne detection of a quantum cascade laser beaten with a local oscillator on a unipolar quantum photodetector in two different atmospheric windows, at 4.8 µm and 9 µm. A noise equivalent power of few pW is measured by employing an active stabilization technique in whi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) Germany), 2024-01, Vol.13 (10), p.1765-1772
Hauptverfasser: Saemian, Mohammadreza, Del Balzo, Livia, Gacemi, Djamal, Todorov, Yanko, Rodriguez, Etienne, Lopez, Olivier, Darquié, Benoit, Li, Lianhe, Davies, Alexander Giles, Linfield, Edmund, Vasanelli, Angela, Sirtori, Carlo
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Zusammenfassung:We report room temperature heterodyne detection of a quantum cascade laser beaten with a local oscillator on a unipolar quantum photodetector in two different atmospheric windows, at 4.8 µm and 9 µm. A noise equivalent power of few pW is measured by employing an active stabilization technique in which the local oscillator and the signal are locked in phase. The measured heterodyne noise equivalent power is six orders of magnitude lower than that obtained with direct detection.
ISSN:2192-8614
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2192-8614
DOI:10.1515/nanoph-2023-0787