Continuously tunable THz and far-infrared wave generation from DAST crystal

Electronics Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 549-551

  Taniuchi, T ^a   Adachi, H ^b   Okada, S ^a   Sasaki, T ^b   Nakanishi, H ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT SOURCES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NUCLEATION; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CONTINUOUSLY TUNABLE TETRAHERTZ (THZ); DUAL-WAVELENGTH OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES;

INFRARED RADIATION;

EID: 2542494138     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20040380     Document Type: Article

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