A femtosecond waveform transfer technique using type II second harmonic generation

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 937-945

  Wang, Haifeng ^a   Weiner, Andrew M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER MODE LOCKING; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SOLID STATE LASERS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

FEMTOSECOND PULSE SHAPING; FEMTOSECOND WAVEFORM TRANSFER; ULTRAFAST OPTICAL WAVEFORMS;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 3142742428     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.830192     Document Type: Article

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