Generation of a 10.6-THz ultrahigh-repetitionrate train by synthesizing phase-coherent Raman-sidebands

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 5628-5634

  Katsuragawa, Masayuki ^a   Yokoyama, Keitaro ^a   Onose, Takashi ^a   Misawa, Kazuhiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CATALYSTS; FOURIER OPTICS; LIGHT SOURCES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCATTERING; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

AUTOCORRELATION-TECHNIQUE; FOUR-WAVE MIXING; PARAHYDROGEN; SCATTERING, STIMULATED;

RAMAN SCATTERING;

EID: 23744513629     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.005628     Document Type: Article

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