Femtosecond second-harmonic generation in periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides with simultaneous strong pump depletion and group-velocity walk-off

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 839-848

  Zheng, Zheng ^a,c   Weiner, Andrew M ^a   Parameswaran, Krishnan R ^b   Chou, Ming Hsien ^b,d   Fejer, Martin M ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Tellium Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LITHIUM NIOBATE; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE MODULATION; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

FEMTOSECOND PULSES;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0141453520     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.000839     Document Type: Conference Paper

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