Efficient low-power terahertz generation via on-chip triply-resonant nonlinear frequency mixing

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Bravo Abad, J ^a   Rodriguez, A W ^a   Joannopoulos, J D ^a   Rakich, P T ^b   Johnson, S G ^a   Soljacic M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOWNCONVERSION; LOW POWER; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL MATERIAL; NONLINEAR FREQUENCY; NONLINEAR FREQUENCY MIXING; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; ON CHIPS; POWER LEVELS; PUMP POWER; TERAHERTZ GENERATION; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; THZ GENERATION;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL MATERIALS;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 77949697332     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3359429     Document Type: Article

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