Phase-matched third harmonic generation in microstructured fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 2567-2576

  Efimov, Anatoly ^a   Taylor, Antoinette J ^a   Omenetto, Fiorenzo G ^b   Knight, Jonathan C ^c   Wadsworth, William J ^c   Russell, Philip St J ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FREQUENCIES; FUSED SILICA; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOSENSITIVITY;

FREQUENCY CONVERSION; MULTIHARMONIC GENERATION; PULSE PROPAGATION; ULTRAFAST PROCESSES IN FIBERS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0347933202     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.002567     Document Type: Article

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