Compression of pulses of a few optical cycles through harmonic generation

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1218-1226

  Biegert, Jens ^a   Diels, Jean Claude ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; PHASE MODULATION; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

PULSE COMPRESSION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0035612578     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.18.001218     Document Type: Article

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