Modeling of frequency doubling and tripling with measured crystal spatial refractive-index nonuniformities

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1404-1411

  Auerbach, Jerome M ^a   Wegner, Paul J ^a   Couture, Scott A ^a   Eimerl, David ^a   Hibbard, Robin L ^a   Milam, David ^a   Norton, Mary A ^a   Whitman, Pamela K ^a   Hackel, Lloyd A ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; FREQUENCY TRIPLERS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER PULSES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

FREQUENCY DOUBLING;

FREQUENCY DOUBLERS;

EID: 0012421459     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.001404     Document Type: Article

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