Terahertz pulsed-field magneto-spectrometer at room-temperature

International audience; We have developed a compact pulsed-field THz magneto-spectrometer based on a THz molecular laser and heterodyne detection both at room-temperature. The recently developed continuous-wave THz laser uses mid-IR-pumped ammonia as active medium. The receiver is based on a subharmonic mixer pumped by a multiplication chain. A pulsed magnetic field up to 9 T is supplied by discharging a capacitor in a small coil at room-temperature. We demonstrate here the use of this spectrometer by measuring the effective mass of electrons in an InAs/AlGaSb heterostructure at room-temperature.