Title :
Power scaling of widely-tunable monochromatic THz pulses based on difference-frequency generation in a pair of stacked GaP plates
Author :
Jiang, Yi ; Ding, Yujie J. ; Zotova, Ioulia B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA, USA
Abstract :
By stacking two GaP plates, we have improved the THz peak power from 433 W to 1.36 kW based on difference-frequency generation, corresponding to an enhancement by two orders of magnitude over the previous result.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; gallium compounds; optical frequency conversion; GaP; difference frequency generation; power scaling; widely tunable monochromatic terahertz pulse; Absorption; Frequency; Gallium arsenide; Laser beams; Nonlinear optics; Power generation; Pulse generation; Stacking; Wavelength measurement; Zinc compounds;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
