Efficiency of Short-Pulse Type-I Second-Harmonic Generation With Simultaneous Spatial Walk-Off, Temporal Walk-Off, and Pump Depletion

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1600-1618

  Wang, Haifeng ^a   Weiner, Andrew M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Femtosecond pulses; Nonlinear optics; Second harmonic generation (SHG)

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CRYSTALS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PUMPING (LASER); SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

FEMTOSECOND PULSES; GROUP VELOCITY MISMATCH (GVM); SPATIAL WALK-OFF; TEMPORAL WALK-OFF;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 0346685873     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2003.819531     Document Type: Article

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