Engineered nonlinear photonic quasicrystals for multi-frequency terahertz manipulation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 11558-11564

  Qin, Yiqiang ^a   Zhang, Chao ^a   Zhu, Ding ^a   Zhu, Yongyuan ^a   Guo, Hongchen ^b   You, Guangjun ^b   Tang, Singhai ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

(190.4400) Nonlinear optics; (320.7120) Ultrafast phenomena; (50.4238) Nanophotonics and photonic crystals

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; NANOPHOTONICS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; QUASICRYSTALS;

DOMAIN-INVERTED FERROELECTRICS; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTRA; MULTI FREQUENCY; NONLINEAR PHOTONICS; PHOTONIC QUASICRYSTAL; THZ FREQUENCIES;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; PHOTON; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TIME;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67650520034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.011558     Document Type: Article

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