Second harmonic generation based on strong field enhancement in nanostructured THz materials

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 7262-7273

  Merbol, Hannes ^a   Bitze, Andreas ^a   Feure, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; RING GAGES;

FIELD ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; GAP REGIONS; NANO SCALE; NANO-STRUCTURED; NANOSLITS; NARROW BANDS; NONLINEAR SUBSTRATES; RESONANT BEHAVIOR; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SMALL GAPS; SPLIT-RING RESONATOR; STRONG FIELD ENHANCEMENT;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 79953847711     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007262     Document Type: Article

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