High-power, single-longitudinal-mode terahertz-wave generation pumped by a microchip Nd:YAG laser [Invited]

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2881-2886

  Hayashi, Shin'ichiro ^a   Nawata, Koji ^a   Sakai, Hiroshi ^b   Taira, Takunori ^c   Minamide, Hiroaki ^a   Kawase, Kodo ^a,d  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; PUMPING (LASER); TERAHERTZ WAVES;

FOURIER TRANSFORM LIMIT; HIGH PEAK POWER; HIGH-POWER; MGO:LINBO; ND : YAG LASERS; PARAMETRIC GENERATOR; PYRO-ELECTRIC DETECTORS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SINGLE LONGITUDINAL MODE; TERAHERTZ-WAVE GENERATION; TUNABILITIES;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; SOLID STATE LASER; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MINIATURIZATION; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 84856460530     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.002881     Document Type: Article

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