Terahertz sources based on intracavity parametric down-conversion in quasi-phase-matched gallium arsenide

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 354-362

  Schaar, Joseph E ^b   Vodopyanov, Konstantin L ^b   Kuo, Paulina S ^b   Fejer, Martin M ^a,b   Yu, Xiaojun ^c   Lin, Angie ^c   Harris, James S ^a,c   Bliss, David ^d   Lynch, Candace ^d   Kozlov, Vladimir G ^e   Hurlbut, Walter ^e  

^a IEEE

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e Microtech Instruments Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Difference frequency mixing; Doubly resonant; Gallium arsenide (GaAs); Nearly degenerate; Optical parametric oscillator (OPO); Parametric down conversion; Self stabilized; Terahertz (THz); Tunable

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PHASE MATCHING; RADIATION EFFECTS;

PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; SELF STABILIZED; TUNABLE TERAHERTZ (THZ);

SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

EID: 41949095017     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.917957     Document Type: Article

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