Energy yield of pulsed optical parametric oscillators: A rate-equation analysis

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 784-790

  Godard, Antoine ^a   Rosencher, Emmanuel ^a,b  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Nonlinear optics; Optical parametric oscillators (OPOs); Pulsed regime

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ITERATIVE METHODS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; VECTORS;

INPUT ENERGY OUTPUT ENERGY CHARACTERISTICS; NONLINEAR CRYSTAL; RATE EQUATION ANALYSIS; SINGLE EXPLICIT SELF CONTAINED RATE EQUATION;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 3042553221     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.828275     Document Type: Article

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