National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)
Continuous-wave terahertz spectrometer
equipmentanalytical / metrologyIndustry: Aerospace
- Category
- Physical Infrastructure
- Affiliations
- NIST Boulder
Description
Photomixing THz spectrometer combining a fixed cw Ti:sapphire ring laser and a tunable Ti:sapphire laser on a low-temperature-grown Er:GaAs photomixer to generate up to ~5 µW from 0.06 to 4 THz, with cryogenic samples at 4.2 K and a liquid-helium-cooled bolometer detector.
Official page
https://www.nist.gov/laboratories/tools-instruments/continuous-wave-terahertz-spectrometer
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- Contact
- David F. Plusquellic <david.plusquellic@nist.gov> (303) 497-6089
Details
- Keywords
- ti:sapphire lasers, photomixer, bolometer detection, hitran comparison, water vapor absorption, molecular and bio-photonics group
- Location
- Boulder, Colorado
- Key spec
- 0.06–4 THz; up to ~5 µW; samples at 4.2 K
- Equipment class
- CW THz photomixing spectrometer
- Associated entity
- NIST Headquarters ; Laboratory Programs ; Physical Measurement Laboratory ; Applied Physics Division ; Molecular and Bio-Photonics Group