Properties of quadratic multi-soliton generation near phase-match in periodically poled potassium titanyl phosphate

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1328-1337

  Polyakov, Sergey ^a   Jankovic, Ladislav ^a   Kim, Hongki ^a,b   Stegeman, George ^a   Carrasco, Silvia ^c   Torner, Lluis ^c   Katz, Mordechai ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Dong Eui University   (South Korea)

^c ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^d Electro Optics Division   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONS; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; PRISMS; WAVE FILTERS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD (BPM); PARAMETRIC PROCESSES; PULSE PROPAGATION; QUADRATIC SPATIAL SOLITONS; SATELLITE SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0242312826     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.001328     Document Type: Article

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