Generation and characterization of ultrafast white-light continuum in condensed media

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 3735-3742

  Nagura, Chihiro ^a,b   Suda, Akira ^a   Kawano, Hiroyuki ^a   Obara, Minoru ^a,b   Midorikawa, Katsumi ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONS; PUMPING (LASER); ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

WHITE-LIGHT CONTINUUM;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 0037141876     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.003735     Document Type: Article

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