Single-crystal sum-frequency-generating optical parametric oscillator

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1546-1552

  Köprülü, Kahraman G ^a   Kartaloglu, Tolga ^a   Dikmelik, Yamaç ^a   Aytür, Orhan ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER TUNING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL ROTATION; PHOTONS; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; PUMPING (LASER); SINGLE CRYSTALS; SOLID STATE LASERS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

GROUP-VELOCITY MISMATCH; PHASE MATCHING; PHOTON-CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PLANE-WAVE MODELS; SUM-FREQUENCY GENERATION (SFG);

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0032613802     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.16.001546     Document Type: Article

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