FWM interaction transfer matrix for self-adaptive laser oscillators

Optics Communications

Volumn 174, Issue 1-4, 2000, Pages 243-247

  Rosas, E ^a   Aboites, V ^b   Damzen, M J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Laboratorio de Láseres   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; GEOMETRY; LASER RESONATORS; LIGHT; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ABCD MATRICES; ADAPTIVE OSCILLATORS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LASER OSCILLATORS; LOOP GEOMETRY; TRANSFER MATRIX;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 0033882331     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(99)00720-8     Document Type: Article

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