Kilohertz femtosecond uv-pumped visible β-barium borate and lithium triborate optical parametric generator and amplifier

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1889-1893

  Wang, Hong ^a   Wong, Kam Sing ^a   Deng, Daoqun ^a,b   Xu, Zuyan ^a,b   Zhang, Jingyuan ^c  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^c GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Femtosecond pulses; Parametric generation and amplification

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008652976     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.001889     Document Type: Article

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