Design of an efficient terahertz source using triply resonant nonlinear photonic crystal cavities

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 20099-20108

  Burgess, Ian B ^a   Zhang, Yinan ^a   McCutcheon, Murray W ^a   Rodriguez, Alejandro W ^b   Bravo Abad, Jorge ^b   Johnson, Steven G ^b   Lončar, Marko ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLED MODE THEORY; DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION; DUAL-POLARIZATIONS; NONLINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CAVITIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL NANOBEAM; RESONANT SYSTEMS; TERAHERTZ SOURCES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHTING; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 70749153563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020099     Document Type: Article

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