Temperature and wavelength tuning of second-, third-, and fourth-harmonic generation in a two-dimensional hexagonally poled nonlinear crystal

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2263-2272

  Broderick, Neil G R ^a   Bratfalean, Radu T ^a,c   Monro, Tanya M ^a   Richardson, David J ^a   Martijn de Sterke, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER LASERS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; LITHIUM NIOBATE;

NONLINEAR CRYSTALS;

SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 0001713896     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.002263     Document Type: Article

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