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Tunable terahertz emission from difference-frequency in biased superlattices

Ren-Bao Liu, Bang-Fen Zhu

cond-mat.mes-hallarXiv:cond-mat/0311494

Abstract

The terahertz emission from difference-frequency in biased superlattices is calculated with the excitonic effect included. Owing to the doubly resonant condition and the excitonic enhancement, the typical susceptibility can be as large as 10-5 m/V. The doubly resonant condition can always be realized by adjusting the bias voltage and the laser frequencies, thus the in-situ tunable emission is efficient in a range of several terahertz. Continuous wave operation with 1% quantum efficiency and μW output power is feasible as the signal absorption in undoped superlattices is negligible.

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