optical harmonic

optical harmonic

[′äp·tə·kəl här′män·ik]
(solid-state physics)
Light, generated by passing a laser beam with a power density on the order of 1010 watts per square centimeter or more through certain transparent materials, which has a frequency which is an integral multiple of that of the incident laser light.
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The power penalty is resulting essentially from the walk-off time, due to fiber chromatic dispersion, between the two optical harmonics [30].
A cost-effective method for high-quality 60 GHz optical millimeter wave signal generation based on frequency quadrupling
Two optical sidebands of second-order optical harmonics related to the optical carrier are generated and maximized at the output of the modulator, and the two sidebands have a frequency spacing of four times of the driving RF to the MZMs.
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Development of a new approach for high-quality quadrupling frequency optical millimeter-wave signal generation without optical filter

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