Femtosecond traveling-wave optical parametric amplification in MgO:LiNbO3

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 36, 1998, Pages 8504-8511

  Petrov, Valentin ^a   Rotermund, Fabian ^a   Noack, Frank ^a  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

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EID: 0000104566     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.008504     Document Type: Article

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