Broadband sum frequency mixing using noncollinear angularly dispersed geometry for indirect phase control of sub-20-femtosecond UV pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 324-338

  Nabekawa, Yasuo ^a   Midorikawa, Katsumi ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BANDWIDTH; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MONOCHROMATORS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

DELTA FUNCTIONS; FREQUENCY MIXING; PULSEWIDTHS; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR OPTICS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 2542471138     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.000324     Document Type: Article

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