Analysis of nonlinear wavelength conversion system for a red-green-blue laser-projection source

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 265-275

  Innerhofer, Edith ^a   Brunner, Felix ^a   Marchese, Sergio V ^a   Paschotta, Rüdiger ^a   Arisholm, Gunnar ^b   Kurimura, Sunao ^c   Kitamura, Kenji ^c   Usami, Takeshi ^d   Ito, Hiromasa ^d   Keller, Ursula ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CAVITY RESONATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER LASERS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; LASER MODES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

FOURIER-SPACE METHOD; INFRARED FEMTOSECOND MODE-LOCKED LASER; NONLINEAR WAVELENGTH CONVERSION SYSTEM;

INFRARED RADIATION;

EID: 33644894199     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.000265     Document Type: Article

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