Tunability enhancement of a terahertz-wave parametric generator pumped by a microchip Nd:YAG laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 2899-2902

  Hayashi, Shin'ichiro ^a,b   Shibuya, Takayuki ^a,c   Sakai, Hiroshi ^d   Taira, Takunori ^e   Otani, Chiko ^a   Ogawa, Yuichi ^b   Kawase, Kodo ^a,b,c  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

^e INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PUMPING (LASER);

EXTERNAL-CAVITY DIODE LASER; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INJECTION SEEDING; NARROW-LINE WIDTH; NONLINEAR CRYSTALS; PARAMETRIC GENERATION; PARAMETRIC GENERATOR; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 67249103280     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.002899     Document Type: Article

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