• DocumentCode
    2713348
  • Title

    THz wave generation inside a fiber laser pumped high-finesse ring-cavity OPO

  • Author

    Hurlbut, Walter C. ; Kozlov, Vladimir G. ; Vodopyanov, Konstantin L.

  • Author_Institution
    Microtech Instrum., Eugene, OR, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    5-10 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We produce tunable (1.3-3 THz) narrow-band THz waves using a fiber-laser pumped near-degenerate type 0 PPLN OPO. Over 130 μW of narrowband THz waves were generated at 1.5 THz in a periodically-inverted gallium arsenide sample using intracavity difference frequency generation.
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; gallium arsenide; optical frequency conversion; optical parametric oscillators; optical pumping; optical tuning; terahertz wave generation; GaAs; THz Wave Generation; fiber laser pumping; high-finesse ring-cavity OPO; intracavity difference frequency generation; near-degenerate type 0 PPLN OPO; periodically-inverted gallium arsenide sample; tunable narrowband THz waves; Cavity resonators; Gallium arsenide; Nonlinear optics; Optical interferometry; Optical pulses; Optical pumping;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Infrared Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), 2010 35th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Rome
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6655-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICIMW.2010.5612630
  • Filename
    5612630