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A Material for Difference-Frequency Generation of Terahertz Radiation

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The possibility of efficient difference-frequency generation of terahertz radiation in a metamaterial representing a structure consisting of alternating layers of a semiconductor materials exhibiting intrinsic or metallic conductivity that can be grown by epitaxial methods is investigated theoretically.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work was supported by program no. 9 “Terahertz Optoelectronics and Spintronics” of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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  1. Ioffe Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 194021, St. Petersburg, Russia

    G. M. Savchenko, V. V. Dudelev, S. N. Losev, A. G. Deryagin, V. I. Kuchinskii, N. S. Averkiev & G. S. Sokolovskii

  2. St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University, 197376, St. Petersburg, Russia

    E. A. Kognovitskaya

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Savchenko, G.M., Dudelev, V.V., Kognovitskaya, E.A. et al. A Material for Difference-Frequency Generation of Terahertz Radiation. Opt. Spectrosc. 125, 582–585 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0030400X1810020X

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