Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 40, Issue 11, 1114003(2020)

Self-Mixing Interferometry with Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers

Zhaolong Xu1, Yan Xie2、*, Yingxin Wang2, Ziran Zhao2, Weidong Chu3、**, and Dejun Feng1、***
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China
  • 2Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • 3Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100088, China
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    Zhaolong Xu, Yan Xie, Yingxin Wang, Ziran Zhao, Weidong Chu, Dejun Feng. Self-Mixing Interferometry with Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2020, 40(11): 1114003

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    Paper Information

    Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

    Received: Feb. 1, 2020

    Accepted: Mar. 16, 2020

    Published Online: Jun. 10, 2020

    The Author Email: Xie Yan (xie_yan@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn), Chu Weidong (chu_weidong@iapcm.ac.cn), Feng Dejun (dejunfeng@sdu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202040.1114003

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