Limits to the power scalability of high-gain optical parametric amplifiers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 578-590

  Arisholm, Gunnar ^a   Paschotta, Rüdiger ^b   Südmeyer, Thomas ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LITHIUM NIOBATE; PUMPING (LASER); REFRACTIVE INDEX;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PUMP BEAMS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 2542464605     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.000578     Document Type: Article

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