Analysis of the generation of amplitude-squeezed light with Gaussian-beam degenerate optical parametric amplifiers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 846-854

  Köprülü, Kahraman G ^a   Aytür, Orhan ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FOCUSING; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

CRYSTAL LENGTH;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0141566545     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.18.000846     Document Type: Article

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