Design rules for phase-matched terahertz surface electromagnetic wave generation by optical rectification in a nonlinear planar waveguide

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 489-494

  Zheltikov, Aleksei M ^a   Musin, Roman R ^a   Xing, Qirong ^b   Li, Yanfeng ^b   Hu, Minglie ^b   Chai, Lu ^b   Wang, Qingyue ^b   Mikhailova, Yuliya M ^a   Nazarov, Maksim M ^a   Shkurinov, Alexander P ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE GENERATION; NONLINEAR PLANAR WAVEGUIDE; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; OPTICAL RECTIFICATION;

PHASE MATCHING;

METAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; METALS; MICROWAVES; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 41449093146     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.000489     Document Type: Article

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