Broadband low-dispersion diffraction of femtosecond pulses from photorefractive quantum wells

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1313-1319

  Dinu, M ^a   Nakagawa, K ^b   Melloch, M R ^a   Weiner, A M ^a   Nolte, D D ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LIGHT REFRACTION;

FEMTOSECOND PULSES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 0034373858     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.17.001313     Document Type: Article

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