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Design, Fabrication, and Experimental Characterization of Plasmonic Photoconductive Terahertz Emitters
Published on: July 8, 2013
Cascaded DFG via quasi-phase matching with Cherenkov-type PPLN for highly efficient terahertz generation
Abstract:
Terahertz (THz) generation in a periodically poled lithium niobate crystal via cascaded difference-frequency generation based on Cherenkov-type quasi-phase matching (QPM) is proposed. Photon conversion efficiency is evaluated based on a promising structure that combines QPM and Cherenkov phase-matching with reduced wave-vector mismatch. Cascading processes contribute to photon conversion efficiency, and THz radiation with maximum photon conversion efficiency of 1154.2% in a 14-order cascaded Stokes process was obtained. Comparing the processes with and without Cherenkov-type radiation, with a 50-MW pump, power was boosted nearly 1.9 times for the former case. These results provide an experimental approach to high-energy THz-wave generation.
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