Two-directional CW THz wave generation system by pumping with a single fiber amplifier of near-IR lasers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 260-262

  Tanabe, Tadao ^a   Ragam, Srinivasa ^a   Oyama, Yutaka ^a   Sasaki, Tetsuo ^b,c   Nishizawa, Jun Ichi ^b,c   Ohkado, Makoto ^d   Yamada, Naoyuki ^d  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SEMICONDUCTOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Rd Management Section   (Japan)

Author keywords

Continuous wave (CW); Fiber amplifier (FA); GaP; Phase matching; Terahertz (THz)

Indexed keywords

BEAM OVERLAPPING; CONTINUOUS WAVES; CONTINUOUS-WAVE (CW); CRYSTAL SURFACES; DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION; GENERATION METHOD; HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY; LASER DIODE PUMPING; NARROW-LINE WIDTH; NEAR-INFRARED LASERS; NEAR-IR LASERS; PHONON POLARITONS; SINGLE FIBER AMPLIFIERS; TERAHERTZ; TERAHERTZ WAVE GENERATION; THZ WAVES; YTTERBIUM DOPED FIBERS;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBERS; GALLIUM ALLOYS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED LASERS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHASE MATCHING; PHONONS; PUMPS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; YTTERBIUM;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 67651183295     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.2010716     Document Type: Article

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