Response to Comment on Widely tunable compact terahertz gas lasers

TL;DR

This paper corrects a parameter in a previously published model for tunable terahertz gas lasers, clarifies the model's accuracy, and addresses concerns raised by prior comments, reinforcing the validity of their original findings.

Contribution

The authors correct a key parameter in their previous model and demonstrate that their simplified power estimation is more accurate than alternative models.

Findings

Corrected the parameter value in the laser performance table.

Validated the simplified power model as more accurate.

Addressed and resolved concerns from prior technical comments.

Abstract

We recently demonstrated a widely tunable THz molecular laser and reported mathematical formulas and a table for comparing how various molecules would perform as such lasers (Chevalier et al., Science, 15 November 2019, p. 856-860). Here we correct the value of a single parameter used to calculate the table (see Erratum for Chevalier et al.), thereby eliminating the concerns raised by Lampin and Barbieri (Lampin et al., arXiv:2004.04422). We also show that our simplified model for the output THz power is a better approximation than the alternative one proposed in the technical comment.