Cascaded fourth-harmonic generation in a single nonlinear crystal

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1691-1698

  Ivanov, Rosen ^a   Saltiel, Solomon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; HARMONIC GENERATION; INTEGRATION; OPTIMIZATION; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

FOURTH HARMONIC GENERATION; SINGLE NONLINEAR CRYSTAL;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 24144475966     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.001691     Document Type: Article

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