Improved second-harmonic generation by selective Yb ion doping in a new nonlinear optical crystal YCa4O(BO3)3

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1826-1833

  Jang, Won Kweon ^a,b,c,d   Ye, Qing ^a   Hammons, Dennis ^a   Eichenholz, Jason ^a   Lim, Jinhong ^a   Richardson, Martin ^a   Chai, Bruce H T ^a   Van Stryland, Eric W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Inha University   (South Korea)

^c Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

^d Hanseo University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR OPTICAL CRYSTALS;

CRYSTALS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; YTTERBIUM; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0033310807     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.806592     Document Type: Article

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