Applications of cascaded quadratic nonlinearities to femtosecond pulse generation

Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 317-338

  Wise, Frank ^a   Qian, Liejia ^a,b   Liu, Xiang ^a,c  

^a School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Femtosecond; Nonlinear optics; Pulse generation; Soliton

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SOLITONS;

CASCADED QUADRATIC NONLINEARITY; FEMTOSECOND PULSE GENERATION; FEMTOSECOND REGIMES; FEMTOSECONDS; NONLINEAR PHASE SHIFT; PULSE GENERATION; PULSE SHAPING TECHNIQUES;

PULSE SHAPING;

EID: 0036758853     PISSN: 02188635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218863502001024     Document Type: Article

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