Universal charts for optical difference frequency generation in the terahertz domain

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1009-1013

  Cherchi, Matteo ^a   Bivona, Saverio ^a   Cino, Alfonso C ^a,b   Busacca, Alessandro C ^a   Oliveri, Roberto L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

Frequency conversion; Optical frequency conversion; Optical parametric amplifiers; Optical propagation in nonlinear media; Optical pulse generation; Semiconductor materials; Submillimeter wave transmitters

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY CONVERSION; FREQUENCY CONVERSIONS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PROPAGATION IN NONLINEAR MEDIA; OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; LASER PULSES; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PULSE GENERATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; TERAHERTZ WAVES; TRANSMITTERS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 77949944740     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2010.2042791     Document Type: Article

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