V. Ya. Aleshkin, A. A. Antonov, S. V. Gaponov, A. A. Dubinov, Z. F. Krasil'nik, K. E. Kudryavtsev, A. G. Spivakov, A. N. Yablonskii, “Tunable source of terahertz radiation based on the difference-frequency generation in a GaP crystal”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 2008, Volume 88, Issue 12,Pages <nobr>905

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ATOMS, SPECTRA, RADIATIONS

Tunable source of terahertz radiation based on the difference-frequency generation in a GaP crystal

V. Ya. Aleshkin, A. A. Antonov, S. V. Gaponov, A. A. Dubinov, Z. F. Krasil'nik, K. E. Kudryavtsev, A. G. Spivakov, A. N. Yablonskii

Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhni Novgorod, 603950, Russia

Abstract: A tunable source of terahertz (1–4 THz) radiation with a line width of 12 GHz is created on the basis of difference- frequency generation in a GaP crystal. Radiation of a pulsed Nd:YAG laser with a wavelength of 1064 nm and a tunable optical parametric oscillator is used as the pump. The radiation is generated in 10-ns-duration pulses with a pulse repetition rate of 10 Hz. The pulsed radiation power is about 15 mW.

PACS: 42.70.Nq, 42.79.Nv

Received: 17.11.2008