Femtosecond second-harmonic pulse compression in aperiodically poled lithium niobate: A systematic comparison of experiment and theory

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1212-1217

  Loza Alvarez, Pablo ^a   Ebrahimzadeh, Majid ^a   Sibbett, Wilson ^a   Reid, Derryck T ^b   Artigas, David ^c   Missey, Mark ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d University of Dayton   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; LITHIUM NIOBATE; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

PULSE COMPRESSION;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0035630059     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.18.001212     Document Type: Article

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