Second-harmonic generation of weak femtosecond pulses under the condition of vanishing group-velocity mismatch

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 939-946

  Zheng, Wanguo ^a,b   Han, Wei ^b   Qian, Liejia ^a   Yuan, Peng ^a   Xie, Guoqiang ^a   Luo, Hang ^a   Zhu, Heyuan ^a   Fan, Dianyuan ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National Research Center for High Power Solid State Lasers   (China)

Author keywords

Femtosecond pulses; Frequency conversion; Group velocity dispersion

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PUMPING (LASER);

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FEMTOSECOND PULSES; GROUP-VELOCITY DISPERSION; PHASE-MATCHING CONDITIONS;

SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 33751289722     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/8/11/002     Document Type: Article

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