Free-space radiation from electro-optic crystals
- 5 February 1990
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 56 (6) , 506-508
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.103299
Abstract
We describe a technique to extract electro‐optic Cherenkov radiation from a LiTaO3 crystal into free space. This permits the generation of collimated beams of terahertz radiation into free space and overcomes previous limitations imposed by total internal reflection.Keywords
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