Room temperature continuous wave milliwatt terahertz source

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 27112-27117

  Scheller, Maik ^a,b   Yarborough, Joe M ^a,c   Moloney, Jerome V ^a,c   Fallahi, Mahmoud ^a,c   Koch, Martin ^a,b   Koch, Stephan W ^a,b  

^a Desert Beam Technologies LLC   (United States)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

CONTINUOUS WAVE; CONTINUOUS-WAVE TERAHERTZ SOURCES; DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION; DUAL COLOR; DUAL MODES; HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; INTRACAVITIES; INTRACAVITY INTENSITY; MATCHING SCHEME; NONLINEAR CRYSTALS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPECTRAL RANGE; SURFACE EMITTING; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ GAP; TERAHERTZ SOURCES; TUNABILITIES; VERTICAL EXTERNAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; TEMPERATURE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHTING; TEMPERATURE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 78650559561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.027112     Document Type: Article

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