Optical parametric oscillator with non-ideal mirrors and single- and multi-mode pump beams

Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 183-192

  Arisholm, Gunnar ^a   Stenersen, Knut ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LITHIUM NIOBATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

ENERGY FLUCTUATIONS; PLANE-WAVE MODELS; RESONANCE EFFECTS; STANDING WAVE RESONATORS;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0042743903     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.4.000183     Document Type: Article

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