Dual-cavity doubly resonant optical parametric oscillators: Demonstration of pulsed single-mode operation

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1716-1729

  Scherrer, Bruno ^a   Ribet, Isabelle ^a   Godard, Antoine ^a   Rosencher, Emmanuel ^a   Lefebvre, Michel ^a  

^a ONERA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CAVITY RESONATORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FREQUENCY STABILITY; TUNING;

FREQUENCY TUNING;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0034367483     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.17.001716     Document Type: Article

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