Calculating characteristics of noncollinear phase matching in uniaxial and biaxial crystals

Optical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1016-1024

  Boeuf, N ^a   Branning, D ^a   Chaperot, I ^a   Dauler, E ^a   Guerin S ^a   Jaeger, G ^a   Muller, A ^a   Migdall, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CRYSTALS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY;

NONCOLLINEAR PHASE MATCHING;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0033743350     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602464     Document Type: Article

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