Temporal solitons in second-harmonic generation with a noncollinear phase-mismatching scheme

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1417-1422

  Zhang, Tiejun ^a   Yamakawa, Koichi ^b   Aoyama, Makoto ^b   Yonemura, Motoki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LASER APPLICATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SOLITONS;

TEMPORAL SOLITONS;

SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 0008310264     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.001417     Document Type: Article

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