Increased acceptance bandwidths in optical frequency conversion by use of multiple walk-off-compensating nonlinear crystals

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 122-141

  Smith, A V ^a   Armstrong, D J ^a,b   Alford, W J ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b WaveFront Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BANDWIDTH; CRYSTALS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

ACCEPTANCE BANDWIDTHS; CRYSTAL SEGMENTS; NONLINEAR CRYSTALS; WALK OFF COMPENSATION;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 0031650680     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.15.000122     Document Type: Article

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