General analysis of group velocity effects in collinear optical parametric amplifiers and generators

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 6513-6527

  Arisholm, Gunnar ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

COUPLED PROPAGATION EQUATIONS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS (OPA); OPTICAL PARAMETRIC GENERATORS (OPG);

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34248517245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.006513     Document Type: Article

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