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CHIN．PHYS．LETT．Vo1．27，No．6(2010)064202 Threshold AnalysisofaTHz-W aveParam etricOscillator LIZhong-Yang(李忠洋)，”，YAPJian-Quan(~,建铨)，一，ZHUNeng-Nian(朱能念)，-， WANGYu—Y(I(王与烨)，一，XUDe—Gang(徐德刚)，2 CollegeofPrecisionInstrumentandOpto-electronicsEngineering，InstituteofLaserandOpto-electronics，Tianjin University,Tianjin300072 KeyLaboratoryofOpto-electronicsInformationScienceandTechnology(MinistryofEducation)，TianjinUniversity Tianjin300072 (Received1December2009) Theparametricgainofaterahertzwareparametricoscillator(TPo)isanalyzed．Meanwhiletheexpression ofTPO thresholdpump intensity isderived and theoretically analyzed with differentfactors． The effective interactionlength betweenthepumpwavena dStokeswaveiscalculated，andpra ticulra attention ispaidtothe couplingefficiencyofthepumpwavena dStokeswave．Suchna analysisisusefulfortheexperimentsofTPO． PACS：42．65．Yj，42．60．Da DOI：10．1088／0256—307X／27／6／064202 Theterahertzwave 门Hz—wave)，bridging the In this Letter，we analyze the parametricgain gap between microwave and far inrfared，has ex- ofTP0 rfom coupled waveequations． Meanwhile hibited many applications in many fields such as theexpressionofTPO threshold pumpintensityhas materialscience，communication，molecular analy- beengivenbasedonthetempora1theoreticalmodelin sis，life science，atmosphericresearch，biology and Ref．I11I，andunderdifferentparameterstheexpres— chem istry．l【一4lHowever，tunable，coherent，compact sionhasbeentheoreticallyanalyzed．Theeffectivein- andhigh．powersourcesintheTHzregionaredimcult teractionlengthbetweenpumpwaveandStokeswave toacquire．Amongthemanyelectronicalandoptical hasbeen calculated，andparticularattentionispaid methodsforTHzgeneration，TP0 hasma