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Frequency Conversion with Semiconductor Heterostructures

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Advanced Photonics with Second-Order Optically Nonlinear Processes

Part of the book series: NATO Science Series ((ASHT,volume 61))

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In this lecture different aspects of frequency conversion in semiconductor heterostructures are reviewed. Thanks to the very high degree of control of growth and technology of thin layers of semiconductors, both electronic wavefunction and optical mode properties can be tailored, through band gap engineering and refractive index engineering. These two aspects lead to the possibility of optimization of nonlinear susceptibilities on the one hand, and nonlinear phase matching on the other hand, which are the two most important parameters for nonlinear frequency conversion.

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Berger, V. (1999). Frequency Conversion with Semiconductor Heterostructures. In: Boardman, A.D., Pavlov, L., Tanev, S. (eds) Advanced Photonics with Second-Order Optically Nonlinear Processes. NATO Science Series, vol 61. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0850-1_26

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