Optical frequency combs from high-order sideband generation

Darren C. Valovcin; Hunter B. Banks; Shawn Mack; Arthur C. Gossard; Kenneth West; Loren Pfeiffer; Mark S. Sherwin

doi:10.1364/OE.26.029807

Optical frequency combs from high-order sideband generation

Darren C. Valovcin
, Hunter B. Banks
, Shawn Mack
, Arthur C. Gossard
, Kenneth West
, Loren Pfeiffer
, Mark S. Sherwin

Princeton University

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We report on the generation of frequency combs from the recently-discovered phenomenon of high-order sideband generation (HSG). A near-band gap continuous-wave (cw) laser with frequency f_NIR was transmitted through an epitaxial layer containing GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells that were driven by quasi-cw in-plane electric fields F_THz between 4 and 50 kV/cm oscillating at frequencies f_THz between 240 and 640 GHz. Frequency combs with teeth at f_sideband = f_NIR + n f_THz (n even) were produced, with maximum reported n > 120, corresponding to a maximum comb span > 80 THz. Comb spectra with the identical product f_THz × F_THz were found to have similar spans and shapes in most cases, as expected from the picture of HSG as a scattering-limited electron-hole recollision phenomenon. The HSG combs were used to measure the frequency and linewidth of our THz source as a demonstration of potential applications.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	29807-29816
Number of pages	10
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	26
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.26.029807
State	Published - Nov 12 2018

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