Generation of a broadband spectral comb with multiwave mixing by exchange of an impulsively stimulated phonon

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1185-1191

  Takahashi, Jun Ichi ^a   Kawabe, Yutaka ^a,b   Hanamura, Eiichi ^a,b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b CHITOSE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; COHERENT LIGHT; CRYSTALS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHONONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RESONANCE; ULTRASHORT PULSES; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

FEMTOSECOND PHENOMENA; MULTIHARMONIC GENERATION; OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES OF CONDENSED MATTER; STIMULATED SCATTERING;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 2942704167     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.001185     Document Type: Article

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