High efficiency generation and detection of terahertz pulses using laser pulses at telecommunication wavelengths

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 5376-5384

  Schneider, Arno ^a   Stillhart, Marcel ^a   Günter, Peter ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PROBES; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

CONTINUOUS SPECTRUM; ORGANIC CRYSTALS; TELECOMMUNICATION WAVELENGTHS; VELOCITY-MATCHING;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 33745132457     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.005376     Document Type: Article

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