Exploiting the optical quadratic nonlinearity of zinc-blende semiconductors for guided-wave terahertz generation: A material comparison

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 368-376

  Cherchi, Matteo ^a   Taormina, Alberto ^a,b   Busacca, Alessandro C ^a   Oliveri, Roberto L ^a   Bivona, Saverio ^a   Cino, Alfonso C ^a,c   Stivala, Salvatore ^a   Sanseverino, Stefano Riva ^a,c   Leone, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^c Centro per la Ricerca Elettronica in Sicilia (CRES)   (Italy)

Author keywords

Frequency conversion; Optical frequency conversion; Optical materials; Optical parametric amplifiers; Optical phase matching; Optical propagation in nonlinear media; Optical pulse generation; Optical waveguides; Semiconductor materials; Semiconductor waveguides; Terahertz generation

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY CONVERSION; FREQUENCY CONVERSIONS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PHASE MATCHING; OPTICAL PROPAGATION IN NONLINEAR MEDIA; OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION; SEMICONDUCTOR WAVEGUIDE; TERAHERTZ GENERATION;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GALLIUM ALLOYS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PHASE MATCHING; PULSE GENERATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; TERAHERTZ WAVES; WAVEGUIDES; ZINC;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 77949440044     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2033821     Document Type: Article

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