Generation of high-order rotational lines in hydrogen by four-wave raman mixing in the femtosecond regime

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 260-268

  Kawano, Hiroyuki ^a,b,c   Hirakawa, Yasuyuki ^a   Imasaka, Totaro ^a,d,e,f  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Japan Soc for Analytical Chemistry   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Chemical Society of   (Japan)

^f AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequency conversion; Nonlinear optics; Optical mixing; Raman scattering; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; HARMONIC GENERATION; HYDROGEN; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE MODULATION; RAMAN SCATTERING; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

HIGHER ORDER ROTATIONAL LINES; SELF PHASE MODULATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0032001801     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.658704     Document Type: Article

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