Double-chirped mirrors expand the bandwidth of infrared frequency combs

A novel dispersion-compensation scheme based on double-chirped Bragg mirrors is implemented in a mid-infrared quantum cascade laser. As a result, stable and broadband frequency combs are generated, which are indispensable for high-precision applications in spectroscopy and metrology.

• Publication year

  2025

• Venue

  Light: Science & Applications

• Publication date

  2025-11-13

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/s41377-025-02078-4PMID 41233348PMCID 12615764
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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