Progress on widely-tunable monochromatic THz sources and room-temperature detections of THz waves

Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 89-111

  Ding, Yujie J ^a   Shi, Wei ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical sensing; Difference frequency generation; THz detection; Upconversion; Widely tunable THz sources

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DETECTION; CHEMICAL SENSORS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; GALLIUM PHOSPHIDE; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; INFRARED LASERS; LASER BEAMS; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; MIXING; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

CHEMICAL SENSING; DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION; THZ DETECTION; THZ SOURCES; UP-CONVERSION;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 33645696563     PISSN: 02188635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218863506003116     Document Type: Article

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