Continuous-wave optical parametric terahertz source

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 22303-22310

  Sowade, Rosita ^a   Breunig, Ingo ^a   Mayorga, Iván Cámara ^b   Kiessling, Jens ^a   Tulea, Cristian ^a   Dierolf, Volkmar ^c   Buse, Karsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^c LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHASE MATCHING; RESONATORS;

DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; LINEARLY POLARIZED; PARAMETRIC PROCESS; PERIODICALLY POLED LITHIUM NIOBATE CRYSTALS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TERAHERTZ SOURCES; TERAHERTZ SYSTEMS;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TRANSDUCER;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHTING; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 72049084029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.022303     Document Type: Article

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