High power and spectral purity continuous-wave photonic THz source tunable from 1 to 4.5 THz for nonlinear molecular spectroscopy

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kiessling, J ^a   Breunig, I ^b   Schunemann, P G ^c   Buse, K ^a,b   Vodopyanov, K L ^d  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES IPM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVES; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; FREQUENCY MIXING; INTRACAVITY POWER; PERIODICALLY POLED LITHIUM NIOBATE; PUMP LASER WAVELENGTH; SINGLE-FREQUENCY; STATE OF THE ART;

GALLIUM ARSENIDE; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 84886551326     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/10/105014     Document Type: Article

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