Second-harmonic generation frequency-resolved optical gating in the single-cycle regime

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 459-478

  Baltuška, Andrius ^a   Pshenichnikov, Maxim S ^a   Wiersma, Douwe A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

FREQUENCY-RESOLVED OPTICAL GATING (FROG); OPTICAL PULSE MEASUREMENTS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0042140416     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.753651     Document Type: Article

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