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Quantum State Engineering of Light with Continuous-wave Optical Parametric Oscillators
Published on: May 30, 2014
Subterahertz superlattice parametric oscillator
1Institut für Angewandte Physik, Universität Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany. karl.renk@physik.uni-regensberg.de
Physical Review Letters
|October 4, 2005
Abstract:
We report a superlattice parametric oscillator (SPO), with a GaAs/AlAs superlattice as the active element. The SPO was pumped by a microwave field (power 4 mW) and produced third harmonic radiation at subterahertz frequencies (near 300 GHz; 0.1 mW). We attribute the parametric gain to the nonlinearity of the miniband transport.
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