Testing the parametric energy conservation law in a femtosecond optical parametric oscillator

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 4378-4384

  Jinghua, Sun ^a   Gale, Barry J S ^a   Reid, Derryck T ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PHASE CONTROL;

FREQUENCY COMBS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; SINGLY-RESONANT FEMTOSECOND;

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

EID: 34147101625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.004378     Document Type: Article

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