Temporal properties of the second-harmonic generation of a short pulse

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 27, 1997, Pages 6788-6793

  Kim, Dal Woo ^a   Xiao, Gang Yao ^a   Ma, Guo Bin ^a  

^a Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (RIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Phase matching; Phase modulation; Pulse distortion; Second harmonic generation; Transient coupled wave equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141843318     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.006788     Document Type: Article

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