Broadband quasi-phase-matched second-harmonic generation of ultrashort optical pulses with spectral angular dispersion

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1699-1713

  Schober, Andrew M ^a   Charbonneau Lefort, Mathieu ^a   Fejer, Martin M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CRYSTALS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; VECTORS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

QUASI-PHASE-MATCHED; SPATIAL WALK-OFF; SPECTRAL ANGULAR DISPERSION;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 24144484883     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.001699     Document Type: Article

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