Enhancement of CW THz wave power under noncollinear phase-matching conditions in difference frequency generation

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 3057-3061

  Ragam, Srinivasa ^a   Tanabe, Tadao ^a   Saito, Kyosuke ^a   Oyama, Yutaka ^a   Nishizawa, Jun Ichi ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Continuous wave (CW); Difference frequency generation (DFG); GaP; Phase matching; Terahertz (THz)

Indexed keywords

BEAM DIVERGENCE EFFECT; BEAM SPOT SIZE; CONTINUOUS WAVES; CONTINUOUS-WAVE (CW); DIFFERENCE FREQUENCY GENERATION (DFG); DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION; GAP; HIGH FREQUENCY; INTERACTION LENGTH; LASER DIODE PUMPING; NEAR-IR; NEAR-IR LASERS; NON-COLLINEAR PHASE-MATCHING; NONCOLLINEAR; OUTPUT POWER; POWER DEPENDENCE; TERAHERTZ; TERAHERTZ (THZ); THZ WAVES;

BAND STRUCTURE; CRYSTALS; GALLIUM ALLOYS; PHASE MATCHING; PUMPING (LASER); WAVE POWER;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 67651160781     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2022340     Document Type: Article

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