Efficiency-enhanced soliton optical parametric amplifier

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1396-1400

  Rodriguez, Silvia Carrasco ^a   Torres, Juan P ^a   Torner, Lluis ^a   Fejer, Martin M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ENERGY CONVERSION; LASER PULSES; SOLITONS;

QUASI-PHASE MATCHING (QPM);

PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0009883197     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.001396     Document Type: Article

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