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Self‐Induced Phase Locking of Terahertz Frequency Combs in a Phase‐Sensitive Hyperspectral Near‐Field Nanoscope
Chip‐scale, electrically‐pumped terahertz (THz) frequency‐combs (FCs) rely on nonlinear four‐wave‐mixing processes, and have a nontrivial phase relationship between the evenly spaced set of emitted modes. Simultaneous monitoring and manipulation of the intermode phase coherence, without any external...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9534969/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35711084 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202200410 |
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author | Pistore, Valentino Pogna, Eva Arianna Aurelia Viti, Leonardo Li, Lianhe Davies, A. Giles Linfield, Edmund H. Vitiello, Miriam Serena |
author_facet | Pistore, Valentino Pogna, Eva Arianna Aurelia Viti, Leonardo Li, Lianhe Davies, A. Giles Linfield, Edmund H. Vitiello, Miriam Serena |
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description | Chip‐scale, electrically‐pumped terahertz (THz) frequency‐combs (FCs) rely on nonlinear four‐wave‐mixing processes, and have a nontrivial phase relationship between the evenly spaced set of emitted modes. Simultaneous monitoring and manipulation of the intermode phase coherence, without any external seeding or active modulation, is a very demanding task for which there has hitherto been no technological solution. Here, a self‐mixing intermode‐beatnote spectroscopy system is demonstrated, based on THz quantum cascade laser FCs, in which light is back‐scattered from the tip of a scanning near‐field optical‐microscope (SNOM) and the intracavity reinjection monitored. This enables to exploit the sensitivity of FC phase‐coherence to optical feedback and, for the first time, manipulate the amplitude, linewidth and frequency of the intermode THz FC beatnote using the feedback itself. Stable phase‐locked regimes are used to construct a FC‐based hyperspectral, THz s‐SNOM nanoscope. This nanoscope provides 160 nm spatial resolution, coherent detection of multiple phase‐locked modes, and mapping of the THz optical response of nanoscale materials up to 3.5 THz, with noise‐equivalent‐power (NEP) ≈400 pW √Hz(−1). This technique can be applied to the entire infrared range, opening up a new approach to hyper‐spectral near‐field imaging with wide‐scale applications in the study of plasmonics and quantum science, inter alia. |
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spelling | pubmed-95349692022-10-11 Self‐Induced Phase Locking of Terahertz Frequency Combs in a Phase‐Sensitive Hyperspectral Near‐Field Nanoscope Pistore, Valentino Pogna, Eva Arianna Aurelia Viti, Leonardo Li, Lianhe Davies, A. Giles Linfield, Edmund H. Vitiello, Miriam Serena Adv Sci (Weinh) Research Articles Chip‐scale, electrically‐pumped terahertz (THz) frequency‐combs (FCs) rely on nonlinear four‐wave‐mixing processes, and have a nontrivial phase relationship between the evenly spaced set of emitted modes. Simultaneous monitoring and manipulation of the intermode phase coherence, without any external seeding or active modulation, is a very demanding task for which there has hitherto been no technological solution. Here, a self‐mixing intermode‐beatnote spectroscopy system is demonstrated, based on THz quantum cascade laser FCs, in which light is back‐scattered from the tip of a scanning near‐field optical‐microscope (SNOM) and the intracavity reinjection monitored. This enables to exploit the sensitivity of FC phase‐coherence to optical feedback and, for the first time, manipulate the amplitude, linewidth and frequency of the intermode THz FC beatnote using the feedback itself. Stable phase‐locked regimes are used to construct a FC‐based hyperspectral, THz s‐SNOM nanoscope. This nanoscope provides 160 nm spatial resolution, coherent detection of multiple phase‐locked modes, and mapping of the THz optical response of nanoscale materials up to 3.5 THz, with noise‐equivalent‐power (NEP) ≈400 pW √Hz(−1). This technique can be applied to the entire infrared range, opening up a new approach to hyper‐spectral near‐field imaging with wide‐scale applications in the study of plasmonics and quantum science, inter alia. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9534969/ /pubmed/35711084 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202200410 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Advanced Science published by Wiley‐VCH GmbH https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Pistore, Valentino Pogna, Eva Arianna Aurelia Viti, Leonardo Li, Lianhe Davies, A. Giles Linfield, Edmund H. Vitiello, Miriam Serena Self‐Induced Phase Locking of Terahertz Frequency Combs in a Phase‐Sensitive Hyperspectral Near‐Field Nanoscope |
title | Self‐Induced Phase Locking of Terahertz Frequency Combs in a Phase‐Sensitive Hyperspectral Near‐Field Nanoscope |
title_full | Self‐Induced Phase Locking of Terahertz Frequency Combs in a Phase‐Sensitive Hyperspectral Near‐Field Nanoscope |
title_fullStr | Self‐Induced Phase Locking of Terahertz Frequency Combs in a Phase‐Sensitive Hyperspectral Near‐Field Nanoscope |
title_full_unstemmed | Self‐Induced Phase Locking of Terahertz Frequency Combs in a Phase‐Sensitive Hyperspectral Near‐Field Nanoscope |
title_short | Self‐Induced Phase Locking of Terahertz Frequency Combs in a Phase‐Sensitive Hyperspectral Near‐Field Nanoscope |
title_sort | self‐induced phase locking of terahertz frequency combs in a phase‐sensitive hyperspectral near‐field nanoscope |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9534969/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35711084 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202200410 |
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