Second-harmonic generation with monolithic walk-off-compensating periodic structures. II. Experiments

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1695-1707

  Zondy, Jean Jacques ^a   Kolker, Dmitri ^a,c   Bonnin, Christophe ^b   Lupinski, Dominique ^b  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b Cristal Laser SA   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF LASER PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; LIGHT MODULATION; NONLINEAR FILTERING; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

BANDWIDTH TUNINGS; OPTICAL PHASES;

SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 0042529300     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.001695     Document Type: Article

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