Adiabatic compression of quadratic temporal solitons in aperiodic quasi-phase-matching gratings

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 9358-9370

  Zeng, Xianglong ^a   Ashihara, Satoshi ^a   Fujioka, Nobuhide ^a   Shimura, Tsutomu ^a   Kuroda, Kazuo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LITHIUM NIOBATE; SOLITONS; VELOCITY CONTROL;

ADIABATIC COMPRESSION; FEMTOSECOND QUADRATIC SOLITONS; QUASI-PHASE-MATCHING (QPM); QUASI-PHASE-MATCHING GRATINGS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 33749377829     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.009358     Document Type: Article

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