High-intensity third-harmonic generation

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 102-118

  Banks, Paul S ^a,b   Feit, Michael D ^a   Perry, Michael D ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; HARMONIC GENERATION; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

THIRD HARMONIC GENERATION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0010982673     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.000102     Document Type: Article

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