A hydrogen-bonded organic nonlinear optical crystal for high-efficiency terahertz generation and detection

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 16496-16508

  Brunner, Fabian D J ^a   Kwon, O Pil ^a,b   Kwon, Seong Ji ^a   Jazbinšek, Mojca ^a   Schneider, Arno ^a   Günter, Peter ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Ajou University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; HYDROGEN BONDS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TERAHERTZ WAVES; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS; OPTICAL RECTIFICATIONS; ORGANIC NONLINEAR OPTICAL CRYSTALS; PHOTON CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PICOSECOND LASER PULSE; PUMP LASER WAVELENGTH; TERAHERTZ GENERATION;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

HYDROGEN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED RADIATION; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HYDROGEN; INFRARED RAYS; MICROWAVES; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 54249096449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.016496     Document Type: Article

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