Frequency comb generation at terahertz frequencies by coherent phonon excitation in silicon

Nature Photonics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 243-247

  Hase, Muneaki ^a,b   Katsuragawa, Masayuki ^c   Constantinescu, Anca Monia ^a   Petek, Hrvoje ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

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EID: 84859429258     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2012.35     Document Type: Article

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