Broadband second-harmonic generation in a double-tapered gallium arsenide slab using total internal reflection quasiphase matching

This article analytically describes broadband second-harmonic generation in a double-tapered gallium arsenide (GaAs) slab using total internal reflection quasi-phase matching technique. This double-tapered configuration ensures a combination of increasing and then decreasing bounce lengths which provides an extremely wide 3 dB bandwidth of 573.6 nm with a conversion efficiency of 1.929%, after considering reflection and absorption losses. Effect of varying the slab dimensions, viz., length and tapering angles, as well as the operating temperature on the performance parameters has also been incorporated in the analysis.