AlxGa1-xas nested waveguide heterostructures for continuously phase-matched terahertz difference frequency generation

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2332-2338

  Staus, C M ^a   Kuech, T F ^a   McCaughan, L ^a  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; GALLIUM; HETEROJUNCTIONS; WAVEGUIDES;

ABSORPTION LOSS; CONTINUOUS PHASE; DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION; FAR-INFRARED; HETEROSTRUCTURES; LATTICE-MATCHED; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SINGLE MODE; TERA HERTZ;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 76149106837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.002332     Document Type: Article

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