Optical parametric oscillations in isotropic photonic crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 823-828

  Conti, Claudio ^a   Di Falco, Andrea ^a   Assanto, Gaetano ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DISPERSIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FOUR WAVE MIXING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; OSCILLATIONS; PHOTONS;

ISOTROPIC PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATIONS;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 2942733551     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.000823     Document Type: Article

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