Velocity matching by pulse front tilting for large-area THz-pulse generation

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 1161-1166

  Hebling, János ^a   Almási, Gábor ^a   Kozma, Ida Z ^a   Kühl, Jürgen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; ENERGY GAP; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHONONS; TUNING; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; VELOCITY;

FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PULSE FRONTS; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR OPTICS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0038757774     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.001161     Document Type: Article

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