Theoretical treatment, simulation, and experiments of doubly resonant sum-frequency mixing

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 30, 1997, Pages 7766-7775

  Kaneda, Yushi ^a   Kubota, Shigeo ^a  

^a SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

External resonator; Frequency conversion; Sum frequency mixing; Ultraviolet generation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001359484     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.007766     Document Type: Article

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