Thermally induced dephasing in periodically poled KTP frequency-doubling crystals

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2191-2196

  Liao, Zhi M ^a   Payne, Stephen A ^a   Dawson, Jay ^a   Drobshoff, Alex ^a   Ebbers, Chris ^a   Pennington, Dee ^a   Taylor, Luke ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; CRYSTALS; DEGRADATION; LASER DAMAGE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHOTOCHROMISM; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

DEPHASING; FREQUENCY-DOUBLING CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR ABSORPTION; POTASSIUM TITANIUM PHOSPHATE; SINGLE PASS FREQUENCY CONVERSION SYSTEM;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 11244334265     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.002191     Document Type: Article

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