Femtosecond supercontinuum generation in a quadratic nonlinear medium (KDP)

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 3224-3229

  Srinivas, N K M Naga ^a   Harsha, S Sree ^a   Rao, D Narayana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELASTIC MODULI; INTERFEROMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC PROPULSION; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; PULSE MODULATION;

BROADBAND ULTRAFAST LIGHT SOURCE; OPTICAL PULSES; QUADRATIC NONLINEAR MEDIUM; SUPERCONTINUMM GENERATION;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 21244449556     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.003224     Document Type: Article

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