Numerical treatment of UV-pumped, white-light-seeded single-pass noncollinear parametric amplifiers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1801-1813

  Reisner, Stefan ^a   Gutmann, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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EID: 0033412682     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.16.001801     Document Type: Article

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