Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 2, 023701(2023)

NH3 laser THz emission under optical pumping by “long” (∼100 µs) CO2 laser pulses

Andrey Alekseevich Ionin, Igor Olegovich Kinyaevskiy, Yuri Mikhailovich Klimachev, Andrey Yurievich Kozlov, Darya Ivanovna Kormashova*, Andrey Alexandrovich Kotkov, Yury Alekseevich Mityagin, Sergey Alexandrovich Savinov, Adilya Maratovna Sagitova, Dmitry Vasilievich Sinitsyn, and Maxim Vladimirovich Ionin
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  • P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, Russia
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    Andrey Alekseevich Ionin, Igor Olegovich Kinyaevskiy, Yuri Mikhailovich Klimachev, Andrey Yurievich Kozlov, Darya Ivanovna Kormashova, Andrey Alexandrovich Kotkov, Yury Alekseevich Mityagin, Sergey Alexandrovich Savinov, Adilya Maratovna Sagitova, Dmitry Vasilievich Sinitsyn, Maxim Vladimirovich Ionin. NH3 laser THz emission under optical pumping by “long” (∼100 µs) CO2 laser pulses[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2023, 21(2): 023701

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    Category: Infrared and Terahertz Photonics

    Received: Apr. 9, 2022

    Accepted: Sep. 2, 2022

    Published Online: Oct. 12, 2022

    The Author Email: Darya Ivanovna Kormashova (kormashova4darjya@inbox.ru)

    DOI:10.3788/COL202321.023701

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