Frequency up-conversion of 800 nm femtosecond pulses by two-photon absorption in doped PMMA fibers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4972, Issue , 2003, Pages 122-130

  Jordan, Grace ^a   Kobayashi, Takeyuki ^a   Blau, Werner J ^a   Tillmann, Hartwig ^b   Hörhold, Hans Heinrich ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frequency up conversion; Nonlinear fiber optics; Two photon absorption

Indexed keywords

CHROMOPHORES; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FIBER OPTICS; LASERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHOTONS;

TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0242578470     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.472841     Document Type: Conference Paper

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