Generation of femtosecond laser pulses tunable from 380 nm to 465 nm via cascaded nonlinear optical mixing in a noncollinear optical parametric amplifier with a type-I phase matched BBO crystal

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1702-1708

  Lee, Chao Kuei ^a   Zhang, Jing Yuan ^b   Huang, J Y ^a   Pan, Ci Ling ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER TUNING; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

FEMTOSECOND PULSES; NONLINEAR OPTICAL MIXING; SUM FREQUENCY GENERATION (SFG);

LASER PULSES;

EID: 2942715063     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.001702     Document Type: Article

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