Arrayed silicon prism coupler for a terahertz-wave parametric oscillator

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1423-1426

  Kawase, Kodo ^a   Shikata, Jun Ichi ^a,b   Minamide, Hiroaki ^a   Imai, Kazuhiro ^a   Ito, Hiromasa ^a,b  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; LITHIUM NIOBATE; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PRISMS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SILICON;

SILICON PRISM COUPLERS;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 0000843994     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.001423     Document Type: Article

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