Exact analytical solutions and their applications for interacting waves in quadratic nonlinear medium

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 83-97

  Liu, Xueming ^a   Zhang, Hanyi ^a   Zhang, Mingde ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SILICA; VECTORS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ALL-OPTICAL PROCESSING; INTERACTING WAVES; NONLINEAR MEDIUM; SUM-FREQUENCY GENERATION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0005326842     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.000083     Document Type: Article

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