Ultrabroadband 50-130 THz pulses generated via phase-matched difference frequency mixing in LiIO3

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 5775-5781

  Zentgraf, Thomas ^a   Huber, Rupert ^a,b   Nielsen, Nils C ^a   Chemla, Daniel S ^a   Kaindl, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PHASE MATCHING; SAPPHIRE; TITANIUM;

AMPLIFIED PULSES; FREQUENCY MIXING; OCTAVE-SPANNING SPECTRA; ULTRABROADBAND PULSES;

LITHIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 34247857689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.005775     Document Type: Article

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