High conversion efficiency, high energy terahertz pulses by optical rectification in cryogenically cooled lithium niobate

Optics Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 796-798

  Huang, Shu Wei ^a   Granados, Eduardo ^a,b   Huang, Wenqian Ronny ^a   Hong, Kyung Han ^a   Zapata, Luis E ^a   Kärtner, Franz X ^a,c  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENIC COOLING; HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HIGH ENERGY; LITHIUM NIOBATE; LITHIUM NIOBATE CRYSTAL; OPTICAL RECTIFICATIONS; OPTIMAL PULSE DURATION; PUMP ENERGIES; PUMP PULSE; TERAHERTZ GENERATION; TERAHERTZ PULSE; THZ PULSE;

ABSORPTION COOLING; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 84874532197     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.38.000796     Document Type: Article

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