Narrow-bandwidth picosecond pulses by spectral compression of femtosecond pulses in a second-order nonlinear crystal

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 8884-8891

  Marangoni, M ^a   Brida, D ^a   Quintavalle, M ^b   Cirmi, G ^a   Pigozzo, F M ^b   Manzoni, C ^a   Baronio, F ^c   Capobianco, A D ^b   Cerullo, G ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SYNCHRONIZATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY PULSES; INTERACTING PULSES; NONLINEAR CRYSTALS; SPECTRAL COMPRESSION;

DATA COMPRESSION;

EID: 34547231170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.008884     Document Type: Article

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