A guided wave approach to Fresnel Phase Matching: Application to parametric oscillation and terahertz-wave generation

Author

Raybaut, M. ; Godard, A. ; Lubin, C. ; Lefebvre, M. ; Rosencher, E.

Author_Institution

Office Nat. d ´´Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales (ONERA), Palaiseau

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We show that a guided-wave approach to Fresnel phase-matching is relevant even for thick semiconductor wafers. This approach is implemented to design a bulk GaAs optical parametric oscillator and a terahertz generator by difference-frequency generation.

Keywords

Fresnel diffraction; III-V semiconductors; gallium arsenide; gallium compounds; optical frequency conversion; optical parametric oscillators; terahertz wave generation; Fresnel phase matching; GaAs; difference-frequency generation; guided wave approach; optical parametric oscillator; parametric oscillation; semiconductor wafers; terahertz-wave generation; Frequency conversion; Fresnel reflection; Gallium arsenide; Nonlinear optics; Optical design; Optical frequency conversion; Optical reflection; Optical waveguides; Semiconductor materials; Slabs; (190.2620) Frequency conversion; (190.5970) Semiconductor nonlinear optics including MQW;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628276

Filename

4628276