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Nonlinear optical phenomena

Spectral distribution of the efficiency of terahertz difference frequency generation upon collinear propagation of interacting waves in semiconductor crystals

S. N. Orlov, Yu. N. Polivanov

Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: Dispersion phase matching curves and spectral distributions of the efficiency of difference frequency generation in the terahertz range are calculated for collinear propagation of interacting waves in zinc blende semiconductor crystals (ZnTe, CdTe, GaP, GaAs). The effect of the pump wavelength, the nonlinear crystal length and absorption in the terahertz range on the spectral distribution of the efficiency of difference frequency generation is analysed.

PACS: 42.65.Ky, 42.70.Nq

Received: 29.05.2006
Revised: 13.07.2006

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2007, 37:1, 36–42

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